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POETICAL QUOTATIONS 



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PREFACE. 

It has been the aim of the compiler of this 
little book to present a Dictionary of Poetical 
Quotations which will be a ready reference to 
many of the most familiar stanzas and lines 
of the chief poets of the English language, 
with a few selections from Continental writers; 
and also some less familiar selections from 
more modern poets, which may in time become 
classic, or which at least have a contemporary 
interest. Eeaders of English literature are 
aware that the few great poets of our language 
have struck perhaps every chord of human 
sentiment capable of illustration in verse, and 
even these few have borrowed the ideas, and 
sometimes almost the exact words, of prede- 
cessors or contemporaries. 

But often old ideas in a new dress are wel- 
come to readers who might not have been 
attracted by the old forms ; and each genera- 
tion has its peculiar modes of expression if not 
its new lines of thought. It is hoped that this 
mingling of the old and the new will not be 
without interest. To carry out the plan of 



IV PREFACE. 

making this a " handy" dictionary of quotations 
and, at the same time, as comprehensive as the 
space permitted, it has been necessary to confine 
the illustration of the topics selected to brief 
extracts from each author. Of course, in all 
books of quotations the great name of Shake- 
speare fills the largest space ; and the compiler 
of this book, as well as all students of Shake- 
speare, is under obligation to the painstaking 
compilers of the concordances to this poet, and 
especially to Mr. Bartlett's monumental work. 
To many other compilers of quotations, espe- 
cially to the Poetical Quotations of Anna L. 
Ward (published by Messrs. T. Y. dwell & 
Co.), the author is under obligations ; while 
he has made an independent examination of 
the more recent poets, as well as many of the 
older ones. The topics illustrated number 
2138, selected from the writings of 255 authors. 
The indexes, which will be found full and 
complete, were prepared by Mrs. Grace E. 
Powers, who has also rendered valuable assist- 
ance in preparing the copy for the press and 
in reading the proofs. 

G. W. P. 
Dorchester, Mass., 
July, 1901. 



HANDY DICTIONARY OF POETI- 
CAL QUOTATIONS. 



A. 

Abashed. 

Abash 'd the devil stood. 
And felt how awful goodness is. and saw 
Virtue in her shape how lovely. 

1 Mxlton: Par. Lost. Bk. iv., Line $±6. 

Abbots. 

To happy convents bosom'd deep in vines. 
Where slumber abbots purple as their wines. 

2 Pope: Dunciad, Bk. iv., Line 301. 
Abdication. 

I give this heavy weight from off my head. 
And this unwieldy sceptre from my hand. 
The pride of kingly sway from out my heart; 
With mine own tears I wash away my balm. 
With mine own hands I give away my crown. 
With mine own tongue deny my sacred state. 
With mine own breath release all duteous oaths. 

3 Shaks. : Richard II.. Act iv.. Sc. 1. 
Abdiel. 

So spake the seraph Abdiel. faithful found; 
Among the faithless, faithtul only he. 

4 Milton: Par. Lost. Bk. v.. Line 896. 

i 



2 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Ability. 

I profess not talking : only this, 
Let each man do his best. 

5 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV., Act v., Sc. 2. 

Absence. 

What ! keep a week away ! Seven days and nights ? 
Eight score eight hours ? and lovers' absent hours, 
More tedious than the dial eight score times ? 
O weary reckoning ! 

6 Shaks. : Othello, Act iii., Sc. 4. 

Though lost to sight, to memory dear 
Thou ever wilt remain. 

7 George Lixley : Song, Though Lost to Sight. 

CondemnM whole years in absence to deplore, 
And image charms he must behold no more. 

8 Pope : Eloisa to A., Line 361. 

last love ! O first love ! 

My love with the true heart, 

To think I have come to this your home, 

And yet — we are apart ! 

9 Jean Ikgelow: Sailing Beyond Seas. 

'Tis said that absence conquers love ; 

But oh believe it not ! 
I've tried, alas ! its power to prove, 

But thou art not forgot. 

Frederick W. Thomas: Absence Conquers 

10 Love. 

Abstinence. 

Against diseases here the strongest fence 
Is the defensive virtue abstinence. 

11 Herrick: Aph. A bstinence. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 3 

Abuse. 

Thou thread, thou thimble, 

Thou yard, three quarters, half-yard, quarter, nail, 
Thou flea, thou nit, thou winter cricket thou : 
Away thou rag. thou quantity, thou remnant. 

12 Shaks. : Ta?n. of the S., Act iv., Sc. 3. 

Accident. 

As the unthought-on accident is guilty 
Of what we wildly do, so we profess 
Ourselves to be the slaves of chance, and flies 
Of every wind that blows. 

13 Shaks. : Wirt. Tale, Act iv., Sc. 3. 

Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, 

Of moving accidents by flood and field. 

11 Shaks.: Othello, Act L, Sc 3. 

Our wanton accidents take root, and grow 
To vaunt themselves God's laws. 

Charles Kixgsley: Saints' Tragedy. 

15 Act ii., Sc. 4. 

By many a happy accident. 

Middletox: No Wit, Xo Help, Like a Wo- 

16 man's, Act ii., Sc. 2. 

Account. 

Xo reckoning made, but sent to my account 
With all my imperfections on my head. 

17 Shaks.: Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 5. 

Accusation. 

Accuse not Nature: she hath done her part; 
Do thou but thine. 

18 Milton: Par. Lost, Bk. viii., Line 561. 



4 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Achievements . 

Great things thro' greatest hazards are achiev'd, 
And then they shine. 

Beaumont and Fletcher : Loyal Subject, 
19 Act i., Sc. 5. 



Acquaintance. 

Should auld acquaintance be forgot, 

And never brought to mind? 
Should auld acquaintance be forgot, 

And days o' lang syne ? 

20 Burns: Auld Lang Syne. 

Action. 

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short. 

21 Shaks. : Othello, Act ii., Sc. 3. 

Of every noble action, the intent 

Is to give worth reward — vice punishment. 

Beaumont and Fletcher : Captain, 

22 Act v., Sc. 5. 



Only the actions of the just 

Smell sweet and blossom in their dust. 

James Shirley : Death's Final Conquest, 
23 Sc. iii. 



Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws 
Makes that and th' action fine. 

24 Herbert : The Elixir. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. O 

Activity. 

If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well 
It were done quickly. 

25 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act i., Sc. 7. 

Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, 

But cheerly seek how to redress their harms. 

26 Shaks. : 3 Henry IT.. Act v., Sc. 4. 

Actors. 

A strutting player, — whose conceit 
Lies in his hamstring, and doth think it rich 
To hear the wooden dialogue and sound 
'Twixt his stretched tooting and the scaffoldage. 

27 Shaks. : TroU. and Cress., Act L, Sc. 3. 

The world's a theatre, the earth a stage 

Which God and Nature do with actors fill. 

23 Thomas Heywood : Apology for Actors. 

Adaptability. 

All things are ready, if our minds be so. 

29 Shaks. : Henry F., Act iv., Sc. 3. 

Address. 

And the tear that is wiped with a little address 
May be follow 'd perhaps by a smile. 

30 Cowper: The Rose. 

Adieu. 

Adieu, adieu ! my native shore 
Fades o'er the waters blue. 

31 Byrox: Ch. Harold, Canto L St. 13. 



D DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Adieu, she cried, and waved her lily hand. 

Gay : Sweet William's Farewell to 

32 Black-eyed Susan, 

Admiration. 

Season your admiration for a while. 

33 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 2. 

Adoration. 

The holy time is quiet as a nun 
Breathless with adoration. 

34 Wordsworth : It is a Beauteous Evening. 

Adorning. 

Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, 
Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn. 

35 Goldsmith : Des. Village, Line 232. 

Loveliness 
Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, 
But is when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most. 

36 Thomson: Seasons, Autumn, Line 204. 

Adversity. 

Sweet are the uses of adversity, 

# Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, 

Wears yet a precious jewel in his head; 

And this our life, exempt from public haunt, 

Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, 

Sermons in stones, and good in everything. 

37 Shaks.: As You Like It, Act ii., Sc. 1. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 7 

A wretched soul, bruis'd with adversity, 

We bid be quiet, when we hear it cry; 

But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, 

As much, or more, we should ourselves complain. 

38 Shaks. : Com. of Errors, Act ii., Sc. 1. 

I am not now in fortune's power : 
He that is down can fall no lower. 

Butler : Hudibras, Pt. i., Canto iii., 

39 Line 877. 

For of fortunes sharpe adversite, 
The worst kind of infortune is this, — 
A man that hath been is prosper ite, 
And it remember whan it passed is. 

Chaucer : Troilus and Creseide, Bk. iii., 

40 Line 1625. 

Advice. 

Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice ; 
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judg- 
ment. 

41 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 3. 

Know when to speak — for many times it brings 
Danger, to give the best advice to kings. 

42 Herrick : Aph. Caution in Council. 

The worst men often give the best advice. 

43 Bailey : Festus, Sc. A Village Feast. 

'Twas good advice, and meant, my son, Be good. 

44 Crabbe : The Learned Boy. 



8 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Affectation. 

There affectation, with a sickly mien, 
Shows in her cheek the roses of eighteen ; 
Practis'd to lisp, and hang the head aside; 
Faints into airs, and languishes with pride; 
On the rich quilt sinks with becoming woe, 
Wrapt in a gown, for sickness, and for show. 

45 Pope : R. of the Lock, Canto iv., Line 31. 

Affection. 

Why, she would hang on him. 
As if increase of appetite had grown 
By what it fed on. 

46 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 2. 

Affection is a coal that must be cool'd, 
Else, suffer'd, it will set the heart on fire. 

47 Shaks.: Venus and A., Line 387. 

Affliction. 

Affliction is the good man's shining scene; 

Prosperity conceals his brightest ray; 

As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man. 

48 Young : Night Thoughts, Night ix., Line 406. 

Now let us thank the Eternal Power : convinced 
That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction. 

49 John Brown: Barbarossa, Act v., Sc. 3. 

Affronts. 

Young men soon give and soon forget affronts; 
Old age is slow in both. 

50 Addison : Cato, Act ii., Sc. 5. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 9 

Age. 

When the age is in, the wit is out. 

51 Shaks. : Much Ado, Act iii., Sc. 5. 

His silver hairs 
Will purchase us a good opinion, 
And buy men's voices to commend our deeds; 
It shall be said, — his judgment rul'd our hands. 

52 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar, Act ii., Sc. 1. 

Manhood, when verging into age, grows thought- 
ful. 

53 Capel Lofft's Aphorisms. Published in 1812. 

I am declin'd into the vale of years. 

54 Shaks. : Othello, Act iii., Sc. 3. 

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale 

Her infinite variety; other women 

Cloy th' appetites they feed ; but she makes hungry 

Where most she satisfies. 

55 Shaks. : Ant. and Cleo., Act ii., Sc. 2. 

An old man, broken with the storms of State, 
Is come to lay his weary bones among ye ; 
Give him a little earth for charity ! 

56 Shaks. : Henry VIII., Act iv., Sc. 2. 

We see time's furrows on another's brow . . . 
How few themselves in that just mirror see ! 

57 Young: Night Thoughts, Night v., Line 627. 



10 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

O, sir! I must not tell my age. 

They say women and music should never be dated. 

58 Goldsmith: She Stoops to Con., Act iii. 

What is the worst of woes that wait on age ? 
What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? 
To view each loved one blotted from life's page, 
And be alone on earth as I am now. 

59 Byron: Ch. Harold, Canto ii., St. 98. 

Old age comes on apace to ravage all the clime. 

60 Beattie : The Minstrel, Bk. L, St. 25. 

But an old age serene and bright, 
And lovely as a Lapland night, 
Shall lead thee to thy grave. 

61 Wordsworth : To a Young Lady. 

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Agony. 

A solitary shriek, the bubbling cry 
Of some strong swimmer in his agony. 

62 Byron : Don Juan, Canto ii., St. 53. 

Agreement. 

Could we forbear dispute and practise love, 
We should agree as angels do above. 

63 Waller : Divine Love, Canto iii. 

Where order in variety we see, 

And where, though all things differ, all agree. 

61 Pope : Windsor Forest, Line 13. 

Aim. 

Better have failed in the high aim, as I, 

Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed. 

65 Robert Browning : The Lnn Album, iv. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 11 

Air. 

When he speaks, 
The air, a chartered libertine, is still. 

66 Shaks. : Henry V., Act L, Sc. 1. 

Alacrity. 

I have a kind of alacrity in sinking. 

67 Shaks. : Mer. W. of W., Act iii., Sc. 5. 

Ale. 

Then to the spicy nut-brown ale. 

68 Miltox : U Allegro, Line 100. 

A Bechabite poor Will must live, 
And drink of Adam's ale. 

69 Prior : The Wandering Pilgrim. 

Alexandrine. 

A needless Alexandrine ends the song, 
That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length 
along. 

70 Pope : E. on Criticism, Pt. ii., Line 156. 

Alone. 

Alone, alone. — all. all alone ; 
Alone on a wide, wide sea. 

71 Coleridge : The Ancient Mariner, Pt. iv. 

Amazement. 

But look ! Amazement on thy mother sits ; 
O step between her and her fighting soul : 
Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works. 

72 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 1. 



12 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Amber. 

Pretty ! in amber to observe the forms 
Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! 
The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, 
But wonder how the devil they got there. 

73 Pope : Epis. to Arbuthnot, Line 169. 

Ambition. 

Fling away ambition ; 
By that sin fell the angels : how can man then, 
The image of his Maker, hope to win by it ? 

74 Shaks. : Henry VIII., Act iii., Sc. 2. 

I have no spur 
To prick the sides of my intent, but only 
Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself, 
And falls on the other. 

75 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act i., Sc. 7. 

Ambition has but one reward for all : 
A little power, a little transient fame, 
A grave to rest in, and a fading name. 

76 William Winter : Queen's Domain. 

To reign is worth ambition, though in hell : 
Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven. 

77 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. i., Line 262. 

Such joy ambition finds. 

78 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. iv., Line 92. 

America. 

America! half brother of the world! 
With something good and bad of every land ; 
Greater than thee have lost their seat — 
Greater scarce none can stand. 

79 Bailey : Festus, Sc. The Surface. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 13 

Anarchy. 

Where eldest Night 
And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold 
Eternal anarchy amidst the noise 
Of endless wars, and by confusion stand. 

80 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. ii., Line 894. 

Ancestry. 

The sap which at the root is bred 
In trees, through all the boughs is spread ; 
But virtues which in parents shine 
Make not like progress through the line. 

81 Waller: To Zelinda. 

What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? 
Alas ! not all the blood of all the Howards. 

82 Pope : Essay on Man, Epis. iv., Line 215. 

Angels. 

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. 

83 Pope: E. on Criticism, Pt. iii., Line 66. 

The angels come and go, the messengers of God. 
81 R. H. Stoddard : Hymn to the Beautiful. 

The good he scorn'd 
Stalk'd off reluctant, like an ill-used ghost, 
Not to return ; or if it did, in visits 
Like those of angels, short and far between. 

85 Blair : The Grave, Pt. ii., Line 586. 

Anger. 

Anger 's my meat ; I sup upon myself, 
And so shall starve with feeding. 

86 Shaks. : Coriolanus, Act iv., Sc. 2. 

Never anger made good guard for itself. 

87 Shaks. : Ant. and Cleo., Act iv., Sc. 1. 



14 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS, 

Angling. 

The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish 
Cut with her golden oars the silver stream, 
And greedily devour the treacherous bait. 

88 Shaks. : Much Ado, Act iii., Sc. 1. 

'T was merry when 
You wager'd on your angling; when your diver 
Did hang a salt-fish on his hook, which he 
With fervency drew up. 

89 Shaks. : Ant. and Cieo., Act ii., Sc. 5. 

Anticipation. 

Peace, brother, be not over-exquisite 

To cast the fashion of uncertain evils ; 

For, grant they be so, while they rest unknown, 

What need a man forestall his date of grief, 

And run to meet what he would most avoid? 

90 Milton : Comus, Line 359. 

Antiquity. 

O good old man ! how well in thee appears 
The constant service of the antique world, 
W^hen service sweat for duty, not for meed ! 
Thou art not for the fashion of these times, 
Where none will sweat, but for promotion. 

91 Shaks. : As You Like It, Act ii., Sc. 3. 

Nor rough, nor barren, are the winding ways 
Of hoar antiquity, but strewn with flowers. 

Warton : Written on a Blank Leaf of 

92 Dugdale's Monasticon. 

Apathy. 

In lazy apathy let stoics boast 

Their virtue fix'd ; 't is fixed as in a frost. 

93 Pope : Essay on Man, Epis. h., Line 101. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 15 

Apparel. 

Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, 

But not expressed in fancy ; rich, not gaudy : 

For the apparel oft proclaims the man. 

94 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 3. 

Apparitions. 

How fading are the joys we dote upon ! 
Like apparitions seen and gone. 

95 John Norris : The Parting. 

Appeal. 

I have done the state some service, and they know it. 
No more of that ; I pray you in your letters, 
When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, 
Speak of me as I am, nothing extenuate, 
Nor set down aught in malice. 

96 Shaks. : Othello, Act v., Sc. 2. 

Appearances. 

All that glisters is not gold, 
Gilded tombs do worms infold. 

97 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act ii., Sc. 7. 

Appearances to save, his only care ; 

So things seem right no matter what they are. 

98 Churchill : Rosciad, Line 299. 

Appetite. 

Now good digestion wait on appetite, 
And health on both. 

99 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act iii., Sc. 4. 

His thirst he slakes at some pure neighboring 

brook, 
Nor seeks for sauce where appetite stands cook. 

100 Churchill : Gotham, iii., Line 133. 



16 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Applause. 

I would applaud thee to the very echo, 
That should applaud again. 

101 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act v., Sc. 3. 

Oh popular applause ! what heart of man 
Is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms ? 

102 Cowper : Task, Bk. ii., Line 481. 

The applause of listening senates to command. 

103 Gray: Elegy, St. 16. 

April. 

Whanne that Aprille with his shoures sote 
The droughte of March hath perced to the rote. 
Chaucer : Canterbury Tales, Prologue, 

104 Line 1. 

April cold with dropping rain 
Willows and lilacs brings again, 
The whistle of returning birds, 
And trumpet-lowing of the herds. 

105 Emerson : May-day, Line 124. 

When aince Aprile has fairly come, 
An' birds may bigg in winter's lum, 
An' pleisure's spreid for a' and some 

O' whatna state, 
Love, wi' her auld recruitin' drum, 
Than taks the gate. 
Robert Louis Stevenson: Underwoods, 

106 Bk. ii., iii. 

Argument. 

In arguing, too, the parson owned his skill, 
For e'en though vanquish'd, he could argue still. 

107 Goldsmith : Des. Village, Line 211. 



DICTIONARY OF POETK A!. QUOTATIONS. 17 

Aristocracy. 

'Tis from high life high characters are drawn ; 
A saint m crape is twice a saint in lawn. 

108 Pope: Mural Essays, Epis. i., Line 135. 

Art. 

Seraphs share with thee 
Knowledge : But art, O man. is thine alone ! 

109 Schiller: Artists, St 2. 

Art is the child of Nature : yes. 
Her darling child, in whom we trace 
The features of the mother's face, 
Her aspect and her attitude. 

110 Longfellow : Keramos, 

Artist. 

In framing an artist, art hath thus decreed, 
To make some good, but others to exceed. 

111 Shaks. : Pericles, Act ii., Sc. 3. 

Aspect. 

With grave 
Aspect he rose, and in his rising seem'd 
A pillar of state. 

112 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. ii., Line 300. 

Aspiration. 

'Tis he. I ken the manner of his gait ; 
He rises on the toe ; that spirit of his 
In aspiration lifts him from the earth. 

113 Shaks. : Trail, and Cress., Act iv.. Sc. 5. 



18 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Assurance. 

I'll make assurance double sure, 
And take a bond of fate. 

114 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act iv., Sc. 1. 

Atheism. 

By night an atheist half believes a God. 

115 Young : Night Thoughts, Night v., Line 176. 

Athens. 

Ancient of days! august Athena ! where, 
Where are thy men of might, thy grand in soul ? 
Gone — glimmering through the dream of things 

that were 
First in the race that led to glory's goal, 
They won, and pass'd away. 

116 Byron : Ch. Harold, Canto ii., St. 2. 

Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts 
And eloquence. 

117 Milton: Par. Regained, Bk. iv., Line 240. 

Attempt. 

The attempt and not the deed 
Confounds us. 

118 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act ii., Sc. 2. 

Attention. 

The tongues of dying men 
Enforce attention like deep harmony. 

119 Shaks. : Richard II., Act ii., Sc. 1. 

Audience. 

Still govern thou my song, 
Urania, and fit audience find, though few. 

120 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. vii., Line 30. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 19 

August. 

Rejoice ! ye fields, rejoice ! and wave with gold, 
When August round her precious gifts is flinging; 
Lo : the crushed wain is slowly homeward rolled : 
The sunburnt reapers jocund lays are singing. 

121 Buskin: The Months. 

Aurora: 

Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, 
Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn. 

122 Pope : Iliad, Bk. viii., Line 1. 

Author. 

Most authors steal their works, or buy ; 
Garth did not write his own Dispensary. 

123 Pope : E. on Criticism, Pt. iii., Line 59. 

Xo author ever spare! a brother. 

124 Gay: Fables, The Elephant and the Bookseller. 

How many great ones may remember'd be. 
Which in their days most famously did flourish, 
Of whom no word we hear, nor sign now see, 
But as things wip'd out with a sponge do perish. 

125 Spenser : Ruins of Time, St. 52. 

Authority. 

Man, proud man, 
Drest in a little brief authority. 
Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd, 
His glassy essence — like an angry ape, 
Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven 
As make the angels weep ! 

126 Shaks. : 31. for 31., Act ii., Sc ; 2. 



20 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Autumn. 

Season of mists and mellow fruitf ulness ! 
Close bosom friend of the maturing sun ; 
Conspiring with him how to load and bless 
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves 

run ; 
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage trees, 
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core. 

127 Keats: To Autumn. 

Divinest autumn ! who may paint thee best, 
Forever changeful o'er the changeful globe ? 
Who guess thy certain crown, thy favorite crest, 
The fashion of thy many-colored robe ? 

128 R. H. Stoddard: Autumn, 

Autumn wins you best by this its mute 
Appeal to sympathy for its decay. 

129 Robert Browning : Paracelsus, Sc. i. 

The lands are lit 
With all the autumn blaze of Golden Rod ; 
And everywhere the Purple Asters nod 
And bend and wave and flit. 

130 Helen Hunt : Asters and Golden Rod. 

I saw old Autumn in the misty morn 
Stand shadowless like silence, listening 
To silence, for no lonely bird would sing 
Into his hollow ear from woods forlorn, 
Nor lowly hedge nor solitary thorn. 

131 Hood: Autumn, 

Avarice. 

The lust of gold succeeds the rags of conquest : 
The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless ! 
The last corruption of degenerate man. 

132 Dr. Johnson : Irene, Act i., Sc. 1. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 21 

So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, 

I think I must take up with avarice. 

133 Byron : Don J win. Canto i., St. 216. 

That disease 
Of which all old men sicken, — avarice. 

134 MlDDLETON: Roaring Girl, Act i., Sc. 1. 

Awkwardness. 

Awkward, embarrassed, stiff, without the skill 
Of moving gracefully, or standing still, 
One leg, as if suspicious of his brother, 
Desirous seems to run away from t'other. 

135 Churchill : Rosciad, Line 438. 



B. 

Balances. 

Jove lifts the golden balances that show 
The fates of mortal men. and things below. 

136 Pope : Iliad, Bk. xxii. 3 Line 271. 

Ball. 

I saw her at a county ball : 

There when the sound of flute and fiddle 

Gave signal sweet in that old hall. 

Of hands across and down the middle. 

137 Praed : Belle of the Ball-Room, St. 2. 

Banishment. 

Eating the bitter bread of banishment. 

133 Shaks. : Richard II. , Act iii., Sc. 1 



22 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Banished? 

friar, the damned nse that word in hell: 
Howlings attend it : How hast thou the heart, 
Being a divine, a ghostly confessor. 

A sin-absolver. and my friend profess'd, 
To mangle me with that word — banished? 

139 Shaks. : Rom. and Jul. Act iii.. Sc. 3. 

Banner. 

Hang out our banners on the outward walls. 

140 Shaks.: Macbeth, Act v.. Sc. o. 

A banner with the strange device. 

141 L ox of e ll o w : Exce h w r . 

Wave. Munich ! all thy banners wave. 
And charge with all thy chivalry. 

142 Campbell : Hohenlinden. 

Bard. 

Be that blind bard who on the Chian strand. 

By those deep sounds possessed with inward light. 

Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssey 

Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea. 

1-13 Coleridge: Fancy in Xubibus. 

Bars. k 

Stone walls do not a prison make, 
Xor iron bars a cage. 

144 Lovelace: To Althea from Prison, iv. 

Baseness. 

Since Cleopatra died, 

1 have lived in such dishonor that the gods 
Detest my baseness. 

145 Shaks. : Ant, and Cleo.. Act iv., Sc. 14. 



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Bashfulness. 

I pity bashful men. who feel the pain 
Of fancied scorn, and undeserved disdain, 
And bear the marks upon a blushing face. 
Of needless shame, and self-impos'd disgrace. 

146 Cowper : Conversation, Line 347. 

Battle. 

Then more fierce 
The conflict grew ; the din of arms, the yell 
Of savage rage, the shriek of agony. 
The groan of death, commingled in one sound 
Of undistinguish'd horrors. 

147 Southey: Madoc, Pt. ii., The Battle. 

For freedom's battle, once begun, 
Bequeathed by bleeding sire to son, 
Though baffled oft, is ever won. 

148 Byron : Giaour, Line 123. 

When the battle rages loud and long, 
And the stormy winds do blow. 

149 Campbell: Ye Mariners of England. 

Beads. 

The hooded clouds, like friars, 
Tell their beads in drops of rain. 

150 Longfellow : Midnight Mass. 

Beams. 

And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, 
Thro' all the circle of the golden year. 

151 Tennyson : The Golden Year. 



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Beard. 

His beard was as white as snow, 
All flaxen was his poll. 

152 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act iv., Sc. 5. 

His tawny beard was th' equal grace 
Both of his wisdom and his face ; 
In cut and die so like a tile, 
A sudden view it would beguile ; 
The upper part thereof was whey; 
The nether, orange mix'd with grey. 

Butler : Hudibras, Pt. i., Canto i., 

153 . Line 241. 

Beast. 

A beast, that wants discourse of reason. 

154 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 2. 

Beauty. 

My beauty, though but mean, 
Needs not the painted flourish of your praise ; 
Beauty is bought by judgment of the eye, 
Not utter'd by base sale of chapmen's tongues. 

155 Shaks. : Love's L. Lost, Act ii., Sc. 1. 

Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good ; 

A shining gloss that f adeth suddenly ; 

A flower that dies, when first it 'gins to bud ; 

A brittle glass that's broken presently; 

A doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, 

Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour. 

156 Shaks. : Pass. Pilgrim, St. 11. 

Beauty stands 
In the admiration only of weak minds 



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Led captive; cease to admire, and all her plumes 
Fall flat and shrink into a trivial toy, 
At every sudden slighting quite abash'd. 

157 Milton : Par. Regained, Bk. ii., Line '220. 

Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, 
The power of beauty I remember yet. 

158 Drydex: Cym. and Iph., Line 1. 

A thing of beauty is a joy forever : 
Its loveliness increases ; it will never 
Pass into nothingness ; but still will keep 
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep 
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet 
breathing. 

159 Keats: Endymion, Bk. L, Line 1. 

What is this thought or thing 

Which I call beauty? is it thought or thing? 

Is it a thought accepted for a thing? 

Or both ? or neither — a pretext ? — a word ? 

Mrs. Browxixg: Drama of Ex. Extrem. 

160 of S word- Gla re . 

If eyes were made for seeing, 

Then Beauty is its own excuse for being. 

161 • Emerson : The Rhodora. 

Fair tresses man's imperial race in snare, 
And beauty draws us with a single hair. 

162 Pope : R. of the Loci:, Canto ii., Line 27. 

True beauty dwells in deej} retreats, 

Whose veil is unremoved 
Till heart with heart in concord beats. 

And the lover is beloved. 

Wordsworth: To . Let Other Bards 

163 of Angels Sing. 



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Bed. 

In bed we laugh, in bed we cry, 
And born in bed, in bed we die ; 
The near approach a bed may show 
Of human bliss and human woe. 

Isaac de Benserade : Trans, by Dr. 

164 Johnson. 

Bees. 

So work the honey-bees ; 
Creatures, that by a rule in nature, teach 
The act of order to a peopled kingdom. 

165 Shaks. : Henry V., Act i., Sc. 2. 

The moan of doves in immemorial elms, 
And murmuring of innumerable bees. 

166 Tennyson : The Princess, Pt. vii., Line 203. 

Beggars. 

Beggars, mounted, run their horse to death. 

167 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI., Act L, Sc. 4. 

When beggars die, there are no comets seen ; 
The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of 
princes. 

168 Shaks. : Jul. Cozsar, Act ii., Sc. 2. 

Behavior. 

And puts himself upon his good behavior. 

169 Byron : Don Juan, Canto v., St. 47. 

Belial. 

When night 
Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons 
Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. 

170 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. i., Line 500. 



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Bells. 

Those evening bells ! those evening bells ! 
How many a tale their music tells 
Of youth, and home, and that sweet time, 
When last I heard their soothing chime ! 

171 Moore : Those Evening Bells. 

Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky 1 

Ring out old shapes of foul disease, 

Ring out the narrowing lust of gold ; 
Ring out the thousand wars of old, 

Ring in the thousand years of peace. 

Ring in the valiant man and free, 

The larger heart, the kindlier hand; 
Ring out the darkness of the land, 

Ring in the Christ that is to be. 

172 Tennyson : In Memoriam, Pt. cv. 

Hear the mellow wedding bells, 
Golden bells ! 
What a world of happiness their harmony foretells ! 

173 Edgar Allan Poe : The Bells. 

Benediction. 

The thought of our past years in me doth breed 
Perpetual benediction. 

Wordsworth: Intimations of Immortality, 

174 St. 9. 

Bible. 

A glory gilds the sacred page, 

Majestic like the sun ; 
It gives a light to every age ; 

It gives, but borrows none. 

175 Cowper : Olney Hymns, No. 30. 



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Bigotry. 

Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded 
That all the Apostles would have done as they did. 

176 Byron : Don Juan, Canto i., St. 83. 

Birds. 

You call them thieves and pillagers ; but know 
They are the winged wardens of your farms, 
Who from the cornfields drive the insidious foe, 
And from your harvests keep a hundred harms. 

177 Longfellow : Birds of Killingworth, St. 19. 

Birth. 

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting : 
The soul that rises with us, our life's star, 
Hath had elsewhere its setting, 
And cometh from afar. 
Wordsworth: Intimations of Immortality, 

178 St. 5. 

While man is growing, life is in decrease ; 
And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb. 
Our birth is nothing but our death begun. 

179 Young : Night Thoughts, Night v., Line 717. 

Birthday. 

A birthday : — and now a day that rose 
With much of hope, with meaning rife — 
A thoughtful day from dawn to close : 
The middle day of human life. 

180 Jean Ingelow : A Birthday Walk. 

Bivouac. 

On Fame's eternal camping-ground 
Their silent tents are spread, 



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And Glory guards with solemn round 
The bivouac of the dead. 

181 Theodore OTIara : Bivouac of the Dead. 

Blasphemy. 

Great men may jest with saints ; 'tis wit in them ; 
But, in the less, foul profanation. 

That in the captain 's but a choleric word, 
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy. 

182 Shaks. : M. for M., Act ii., Sc. 2. 

Bleakness. 

A naked house, a naked moor, 
A shivering pool before the door, 
A garden bare of flowers and fruit, 
And poplars at the garden foot : 
Such is the place that I live in, 
Bleak without and bare within. 

Robert Louis Stevenson : The House 

183 Beautiful, 

Blessings. 

How blessings brighten as they take their flight ! 

184 Young : Night Thoughts, Night ii., Line 602. 

For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, 
And though a late, a sure reward succeeds. 

185 Congreve : Mourning Bride, Act v., Sc. 12. 

Blindness. 

O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon ; 
Irrecoverably dark ! total eclipse, 
Without all hope of day. 

186 Milton : Samson Agonistes, Line 80. 



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O, loss of sight, of thee I most complain ! 

Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, 

Dungeons, or beggary, or decrepit age ! 

Light, the prime work of God, to me 's extinct, 

And all her various objects of delight 

Annul'd, which might in part my grief have eas'd. 

187 Milton : Samson Agonistes, Line 67. 

Bliss. 

Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; 
Bliss is the same in subject or in king. 

188 Pope : Essay on Man, Epis. iv., Line 57. 

Vain, very vain, my weary search to find 
That bliss which only centres in the mind. 

189 Goldsmith : Traveller, Line 423. 

Blood. 

When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul 
Lends the tongue vows. 

190 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 3. 

A ruddy drop of manly blood 

The surging sea outweighs ; 
The world uncertain comes and goes, 

The lover rooted stays. 

191 Emerson : Epigraph to Friendship. 

Blood is a juice of very special kind. 

Goethe : Faust (Swanwick's Trans.), 

192 Line 1386. 

Bloom. 

O'er her warm cheek and rising bosom move 
The bloom of young Desire and purple light of 
Love. 

193 Gray : Prog, of Poesy, Pt. i., St. 1, Line 3. 



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Blossoms. 

10 in life's battle firm doth stand 
Shall bear hope's tender blossoms 
Into the silent land. 

J. G. vxhs Salis : Tht Silent Land. 

Bluntness. 

I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth. 
Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, 
~:ir men's blood : I only speak right on. 

195 Shaks. : Jul. Cossar, Act iii.. Sc 2. 

Blushing. 

Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, 
Half wishing they were dead to save the shame. 
The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow ; 
They have drawn too near the fire of life, like 

gn: 
And flare up boldlv. win^s and all. 
What then ? 
Who 's sorry for a gnat ... or girl ? 

Me s.Br owning : .4 u re ra L t igh , 

196 Bk. ii.. Line 732. 

Boasting. 

Here 's a large mouth, indeed. 
That spits forth death, and mountains, rocks, and 

aeas . 
Talks as familiarly of roaring lions. 
As maids of thirteen do of puppy d g - 

197 Shaks.: King John, Act ii, Sc 2. 

Boat. 
Oh swiftly glides the bonnie boat, 
Just parted from the shore. 



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And to the fisher's chorus-note 
Soft moves the dipping oar. 

198 Baillie : Oh Swiftly Glides the Bonnie Boat. 

Boldness. 

In conversation boldness now bears sway, 
But know, that nothing can so foolish be 
As empty boldness. 

199 Herbert : Temple, Church Porch, St. 34. 

Bond. 

1 11 have my bond ; I will not hear thee speak ; 
I '11 have my bond ; and therefore speak no more. 

200 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act iii., Sc. 3. 

Bones. 

Cursed be he that moves my bones. 

201 Shaks. : Shakespeare's Epitaph. 

Rattle his bones over the stones ! 

He 's only a pauper, whom nobody owns ! 

202 Thomas Noel : The Pauper's Ride. 

Books. 

A book ! O rare one ! 

Be not, as is our fangled world, a garment 

Nobler than that it covers. 

203 Shaks. : Cymbeline, Act v., Sc. 1= 

That place that does contain 
My books, the best companions, is to me 
A glorious court, where hourly I converse 
With the old sages and philosophers ; 



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And sometimes, for variety, 1 confer 

With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels. 

Beaumont and Fletcher: The Elder 
204 Brother, Act i., Sc. 2. 



Books cannot always please, however good ; 

Minds are not ever craving for their food. 

205 Crabbe : The Borough, Letter xxiv. 



Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we 

know, 
Are a substantial world, both pure and good ; 
Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and 

blood, 
Our pastime and our happiness will grow. 

206 Wordsworth : Personal Talk. 

Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself. 

207 Milton : Par. Regained, Bk. iv., Line 327. 

Some books are lies frae end to end. 

208 Burns : Death and Dr. Hornbook. 

Bores. 

Society is now one polish'd horde, 

Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored. 

209 Byron : Don Juan, Canto xiii., St. 95. 

Again I hear that creaking step ! — 

He 's rapping at the door ! — 
Too well I know the boding sound 

That ushers in a bore. 

210 J. G. Saxe : My Familiar. 



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Borrowing. 

Neither a borrower nor a lender be, 
For loan oft loses both itself and friend ; 
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. 
This above all, — to thine own self be true ; 
And it must follow, as the night the day, 
Thou canst not then be false to any man. 

211 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 3. 

Boston. 

Solid men of Boston, banish long potations ! 
Solid men of Boston, make no long orations ! 

212 Charles Morris : American Song. 

From Lyra Urbanica. 

Bough. 

Cut is the branch that might have grown full 

straight, 
And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, 
That sometime grew within this learned man. 

213 Marlowe : Faustus. 

Bounds, 

There 's nothing situate under Heaven's eye, 
But hath his bound, in earth, in sea, in sky. 

214 Shaks. : Com. of Errors, Act ii., Sc. 1. 

Bounty 

For his bounty, 
There was no winter in 't ; an autumn 't was, 
That grew the more by reaping. 

215 Shaks. : Ant. and Cleo., Act v., Sc. 2. 

Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, 
Heaven did a recompense as largely send ; 



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He gave to niis'ry (all he had) a tear, 

He gain'd from lleav'n ('twas all he wish'd) a 
friend. 

216 Gray: Elegy, The Epitaph. 

Bourn. 

The undiscover'd country from whose bourn 
Xo traveller returns. 

217 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 1. 

Bower. 

I 'd be a butterfly born in a bower, 

Where roses and lilies and violets meet. 

218 Thomas Haynes Bayly : I'd be a Butterfly. 

Bowl. 

There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl, 
The feast of reason and the flow of soul. 

219 Pope : Satire i., Line 6. 

Boyhood. 

The whining schoolboy, with his satchel, 
And shining morning face, creeping like snail 
Unwillingly to school. 

220 Shaks. : As You Like It, Act ii., Sc. 7. 

The smiles, the tears, 
Of boyhood's years, 
The words of love then spoken. 

221 Moore : Oft in the Stilly Night. 

Braes. 

We twa hae run about the braes, 
And pu'd the go wans fine. 

222 Burns: Auld Lang Syne. 



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Braggart. 

I know them. yea. 
And what they weigh, even to the utmost scruple : 
Scrambling, outfacing, fashion-monging boys. 
That lie. and cog, and flout, deprave, and slander, 
Go anticly. and show outward hideousness, 
And speak off half a dozen dangerous words. 
How they might hurt their enemies if they durst : 
And this is all. 

223 Shaks. : Much Ado, Act v., Sc. 1. 

Brains. 

The times have been 
That, when the brains were out. the man would 

die, 
And there an end ; but now they rise again. 
With twenty mortal murders on their crowns. 
And push us from our stools. 

224 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act iii.. Sc. 4. 

Bravery. 

'T is more brave 
To live, than to die. 

Owen Meredith: Lucile, Pt. ii.. Canto vi.. 

225 St. 11. 

None but the brave deserves the fair. 

226 Drtden: Alex. Feast. St. 1. 

How sleep the brave, who sink to rest. 
Bv all their country's wishes blest ! 

227 Collins: Lines in 1761. 

Breach. 

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more. 
Or close the wall up with our English dead ! 

228 Shaks. : Henry V. : Act ii.. Sc. 4. 



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Bread. 

O God ! that bread should be so dear, 
And flesh and blood so cheap ! 

229 Hood : The Song of the Shirt. 

Breast. 

The yielding marble of her snowy breast. 

Waller : On a Lady passing through a Crowd 

230 of People. 

A word in season spoken 

May calm the troubled breast. 

231 Charles Jefferys : A Word in Season. 

Breath. 

When the good man yields his breath 
(For the good man never dies). 

James Montgomery : The. Wanderer of 

232 Switzerland, Pt. v. 

Breeches. 

But the old three-cornered hat, 
And the breeches, and all that, 
Are so queer ! 

233 Oliver Wendell Holmes : The Last Leaf. 

Breezes. 

Breezes of the South ! 
Who toss the golden and the flame-like flowers, 
And pass the prairie-hawk that, poised on high, 
Flaps his broad wings, yet moves not — ye have 

played 
Among the palms of Mexico and vines 
Of Texas, and have crisped the limpid brooks 
That from the fountains of Sonora glide 
Into the calm Pacific — have ye fanned 
A nobler or a lovelier scene than this? 

234 William Cullen Bryant : The Prairies. 



38 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Brevity. 

Since brevity is the soul of wit, 
And tediousness the limbs and outward flour- 
ishes — 
I will be brief. 

235 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act ii., Sc. 2. 

For brevity is very good, 

When we are, or are not, understood. 

Butler : Hudibras, Pt. i., Canto i., 

236 Line 669. 

Bribes. 

What ! shall one of us, 
That struck the foremost man of all this world, 
But for supporting robbers ; — shall we now 
Contaminate our fingers with base bribes ? 
And sell the mighty space of our large honors 
For so much trash as may be grasped thus ? 
I 'd rather be a dog, and bay the moon, 
Than such a Roman. 

237 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar, Act iv., Sc. 3. 

Bride. 

You are just a sweet bride in her bloom, 
All sunshine, and snowy, and pure. 

238 Thomas B. Aldrich : An Untimely Thought. 

Bridge. 

By the rude bridge that arched the flood, 
Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, 

Here once the embattl'd farmers stood, 
And fired the shot heard round the world. 

Emerson : Hymn sung at the Completion 

239 of the Battle Monument. 



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Brooks. 

A silvery brook comes stealing 

'\v of its trees, 
Where slender herbs of the forest stoop 
Before the entering breeze. 

William Cuixen Bryant : 

240 The Unknown Way. 

Brotherhood. 

I have shot mine arrow o'er the house. 
And hurt my brother. 
'24:1 Skaks. : Handel, Act v.. Sc. 2. 

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress : 

A brother to relieve. — how exquisite the bliss ! 

242 Burns : A Winter Night. 

Bubbles. 

Hie earth hath bubbles as the water has, 
And these are oi them. 

243 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act i.. Sc. 3. 



Bucket. 

The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, 
The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well. 

244 Woodworth : The Old Oaken Bucket. 



Bud. 

The bud is on the bough again. 
The leaf is on the fci 
Charles Jefferys : Tie Meeting of Spring 
245 and Summer. 



40 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Bugle. 

Blow, bugle, blow ! set the wild echoes flying ! 
And answer, echoes, answer ! dying, dying, dying. 
Tennyson : The Princess, Pt. iii., 

246 Line 360. 

Building. 

The hand that rounded Peter's dome, 
And groined the aisles of Christian Rome. 
Wrought in a sad sincerity; 
Himself from God he could not free ; 
He builded better than he knew : 
The conscious stone to beauty grew. 

247 Emerson: The Problem. 

Burden. 

A sacred burden is this life ye bear : 
Look on it, lift it, bear it solemnly, 
Stand up and walk beneath it steadfastly. 

Frances Anne Kemble : To the Young 

248 Gentlemen leaving Lenox Academy, Mass. 

Bush. 

For what are they all in their high conceit, 
When man in the bush with God may meet? 

249 Emerson: Good-Bye. 

Business. 

Let thy mind still be bent, still plotting, where 
And when, and how thy business may be done, 
Slackness breeds worms ; but the sure traveller, 
Though he alights sometimes, still goeth on. 

250 Herbert: Temple, Church Porch, St. 57. 



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Buttercups. 

All will be gay when noontide wakes anew 
The buttercups, the little children's dower. 

Robert Browning: Home-Thoughts, 
251 From Abroad, 



C. 

Cadence. 

Wit will shine 
Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line. 

Dkyden : To the Memory of Mr. Oldham, 

252 Line 15. 

Caesar. 

Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay, 
Might stop a hole to keep the wind away. 

253 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act v., Sc. 1. 

But yesterday the word of Caesar might 

Have stood against the world ; now lies he there, 

And noue so poor to do him reverence. 

251 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar, Act iii., Sc. 2. 

Calamity. 

Affliction is enamour'd of thy parts, 
And thou art wedded to calamity. 

255 Shaks. : Rom. and Jul., Act iii., Sc. 3. 

Calmness. 

And through the heat of conflict keeps the law 
In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw. 

256 Wordsworth: Character of the Happy 

Warrior. 



42 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Calumny. 

Calumny will sear 
Virtue itself: these shrugs, these hums, and ha's. 

257 Shaks. : Wint. Tale, Act ii., Sc. 1. 

Camping. 

The bed was made, the room was fit, 
By punctual eve the stars were lit ; 
The air was still, the water ran, 
No need was there for maid or man, 
When we put up, my ass and I, 
At God's green caravanserai. 

258 Robert Louis Stevenson : A Camp. 

Candle. 

How far that little candle throws his beams ! 
So shines a good deed in a naughty world. 

259 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act v., Sc. 1. 

Candor. 

Some positive, persisting fops we know, 
Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so ; 
But you with pleasure own your errors past, 
And make each day a critique on the last. 

260 Pope : E. on Criticism, Pt. iii., Line 9. 

Cannons. 

The cannons have their bowels full of wrath ; 
And ready mounted are they, to spit forth 
Their iron indignation. 

261 Shaks. : King John, Act ii., Sc. 1. 

Canopy. 

Seas roll to waft me, snns to light me rise ; 
My footstool earth, my canopy the skies. 

262 Pope : Essay on Man, Epis. i., Line 139. 



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Capacity. 

That wondrous soul Charoba once possest. — 
Capacious, then, as earth or heaven could hold, 
Soul discontented with capacity, — 
1- gone (I fear) forever. 

263 Walter Savage Landor : Gebir, Bk. ii. 

Captain. 

O Captain ! my Captain ! our fearful trip is done. 
The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we 

sought is won. 
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all 

exulting. 
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim 
and daring. 

But heart ! heart ! heart ! 
O the bleeding drops of red, 

Where on the deck my Captain lies, 
Fallen cold and dead. 

Walt Whitman: Captain! My Captain! 

264 (On Death of Lincoln.) 

A rude and boisterous captain of the sea. 

265 John Home : Douglas, Act iv.. Sc. 1. 

Care. 

Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, 
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie. 

266 Shaks. : Rom. and Jul, Act ii., Sc. 1. 

Care that is enter'd once into the breast. 
Will have the whole possession, ere it rest. 

267 Ben Jonson : Tale of a Tub, Act i., Sc. 3, 



44 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Care, whom not the gayest can outbrave, 
Pursues its feeble victim to the grave. 

Henry Kirke White : Childhood, Pt. ii., 

268 Line 17. 

Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt ; 
And every grin, so merry, draws one out. 

269 Peter Pindar : Ex. Odes, Ode 15. 

Hang sorrow ! care will kill a cat, 
And therefore let 's be merry. 

270 George Wither : Poem on Christmas. 

Carefulness. 

For my means, I '11 husband them so well, 
They shall go far with little. 

271 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act iv., Sc. 5. 

Cat. 

A harmless necessary cat. 

272 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act iv., Sc. 1. 

Let Hercules himself do what he may, 

The cat will mew and dog will have his day. 

273 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act v., Sc. 1. 

Cataract. 

The sounding cataract 
Haunted me like a passion. 

Wordsworth : Lines composed a few miles 

274 above Tintern Abbey. 

Cathedrals. 

The high embower'd roof, 
With antique pillars, massy proof, 
And storied windows, richly dight. 
Casting a dim religious light. 

275 Milton : II Penseroso, Line 157. 



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Cato. 

Like Cato, give his little senate laws. 
And sit attentive to his own applause. 

276 Pope : Prologue to the Satires^ Line 207. 

Cattle. 

O Mary, go and call the cattle home, 

And call the cattle home, 
And call the cattle home, 

Across the sands o' Dee. 

277 Charles Kingsley : The Sands of Dee. 

Cause. 

And therefore little shall I grace my cause 
In speaking for myself. 

278 Shaks. : Othello, Act L, Sc. 3. 

Caution. 

Let every eye negotiate for itself 
And trust no agent. 

279 Shaks. : Much Ado, Act ii., Sc. 1. 

Know when to speak : for many times it brings 
Danger, to give the best advice to kings. 

280 Herrick : Aph. Caution in Council. 

Vessels large may venture more, 

But little boats should keep near shore. 

281 Franklin : Poor Richard, 

Caverns. 

Where Alph, the sacred river, ran 
Through caverns measureless to man 
Down to a sunless sea. 

282 Coleridge : Kubla Khan. 



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Celibacy. 

But earthly happier is the rose distill'd, 

Than that, which, withering on the virgin thorn, 

Grows, lives and dies in single blessedness. 

283 Shaks. : Mid. N. Dream, Act i., Sc. 1. 

Our Maker bids increase ; who bids abstain 
But our destroyer, foe to God and man ? 

284 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. iv., Line 748. 

Censure. 

Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, 
Are lost on hearers that our merits know. 

285 Pope : Iliad, Bk. x., Line 293. 

Ceremony. 

Ceremony was but devised at first 
To set a gloss on faint deeds — hollow welcomes, 
Recanting goodness, sorry ere 't is shown ; 
But where there is true friendship, there needs 
none. 

286 Shaks. : Timon of A., Act i., Sc. 2. 

Challenge. 

There I throw my gage, 
To prove it on thee, to the extremest point 
Of mortal breathing. 

287 Shaks. : Richard II., Act iv., Sc. 1. 

Chance. 

That power 
Which erring men call Chance. 

288 Milton : Comus, Line 587. 



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All nature is but art unknown to thee, 

All chance, direction, which thou canst not see. 

289 PorE : Essay on Man, Kpis. i., Lin< 

Change. 

All but God is changing day by day. 

290 CiiAKLES KlNGSLEY: Prometheus. 

When change itself can give no more, 
'T is easy to be true. 

291 Charles Sedley: Reasons for Constancy. 

Let the great world spin forever down the ringing 
grooves of change. 

292 Texxysox : Locksley Hall, Line 182. 

Chaos. 

For he being dead, with him is beauty slain, 
And, beauty dead, black chaos comes again. 

293 Shaks. : Venus and A., Line 1019. 

Chaos of thought and passion, all confused ; 

Still by himself abused or disabused. 

291: Pope : Essay on Man, Epis. ii., Line 13. 

Character. 

There is a kind of character in thy life, 

That to the observer doth thy history 

Fully unfold. 

295 " Shaks. : M. for M., Act i., Sc. 1. 

Worth, courage, honor, these indeed 
Your sustenance and birthright are. 
£96 E. C. Stedmax: Beyond the Portals, Pt, 10. 



48 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Charity. 

Charity itself fulfils the law, 
And who can sever love from charity? 

297 Shaks. : Love's L. Lost, Act iv., 8c. 3. 

Alas for the rarity 
Of Christian charity 
Under the sun ! 

298 Hood : Bridge of Sighs. 

Charms. 

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. 

299 Pope : R. of the Lock, Canto v., Line 34. 

Chastity. 

So dear to heav'n is saintly chastity, 
That when a soul is found sincerely so, 
A thousand liveried angels lackey her. 

300 Milton : Comus, Line 453. 

Chatterton. 

I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, 
The sleepless soul that perish'd in his pride. 
Of him who walk'd in glory and in joy, 
Following his plough along the mountain side. 

301 Wordsworth : Res. and Indep., St. 7. 

Chaucer. 

Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled, 
On Fame's eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled. 
Spenser : Faerie Queene, Bk. iv., Canto ii., 

302 St. 32. 

Cheating. 

Doubtless the pleasure is as great, 
Of being cheated as to cheat. 

303 Butler : Hudibras, Pt. ii., Canto iii., Ling 1. 



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Cheerfulness. 

It is good 
To lengthen to the last a sunny mood. 

James Russell Lowell: Legend of 

304 Brittany, Pt. i., St. 35. 

Chickens. 

To swallow gudgeons ere they 're catch'd, 
And count their chickens ere they 're hatch'd. 
Butler: Hudlbras, Pt. ii., Canto ii., 

305 Line 923. 

Chiding. 

Chide him for faults, and do it reverently, 
When you perceive his blood inclined to mirth. 

306 Shaks. : 2 Henry IV., Sc. 4. 

Child — Childhood — Children. 

Ah ! what would the world be to us 

If the children were no more ? 
We should dread the desert behind us 

Worse than the dark before. 

307 Longfellow : Children. 

Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, 
Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. 

308 Pope : Essay on Man, Epis. ii., Line 275. 

The child is father of the man. 

309 Wordsworth : My Heart Leaps, Line 7. 

Children are the keys of Paradise. 

They alone are good and wise, 

Because their thoughts, their very lives are prayer. 

310 R. H. Stoddard : The Children's Prayer. 



50 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

I have had playmates, I have had companions, 
In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days. 
All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. 

311 Charles Lamb : Old Familiar Faces. 

As children gathering pebbles on the shore. 

312 Milton : Par. Regained, Bk. iv., Line 330. 

Backward, turn backward, Time, in your flight, 
Make me a child again, just for to-night. 

Elizabeth Akers Allen : Rock Me to 

313 Sleep. 

Chime. 

Faintly as tolls the evening chime, 

Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time. 

314 Moore : A Canadian Boat- Song. 

Chivalry. 

Cervantes smil'd Spain's chivalry away. 

315 Byron : Don Juan, Canto xiii., St. 11. 

Choice. 

There 's small choice in rotten apples. 

316 Shaks. : Tarn, of, the &, Act i., Sc. 1. 

Follow thou thy choice. 

William Cullen Bryant : Alcayde of 

317 Molina. 

Choler. 

Must I give way and room to your rash choler ? 
Shall I be frighted when a madman stares? 

318 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar, Act iv., Sc. 3. 



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Chord. 

Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all 

the chords with might ; 
Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, pass'd in 
music out of sight. 

319 Tennyson : Locksky Hall, Line 33. 

Christ. 

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across 

the sea. 
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you 

and me : 
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make 

men free. 

Julia Ward Howe: Battle Hymn of (he 

320 Republic. 

Hail to the King of Bethlehem, 
Who weareth in his diadem 
The yellow crocus for the gem 
Of his authority. 

Longfellow : Christus, Golden Legend. 

321 Pt. iii. 

Christ — the one great word 
Well worth all languages in earth or Heaven. 

322 Bailey: Festus, Sc. Heaven. 

We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an" 
pillage. 

James Russell Lowell : Biglow Papers. 

323 No. iii. 

Christmas. 

At Christmas play, and make good cheer. 
For Christmas comes but once a year. 

324 Tusser : 500 Pts. Good Has., Ch. 12. 



52 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Again at Christmas did we weave 

The holly round the Christmas hearth ; 
The silent snow possess'd the earth. 

325 Tennyson: In Memoriam, Pt. lxxvii., St. 1. 

Bright be thy Christmas tide ! 

Carol it far and wide, 

Jesus, the King and the Saviour, is come ! 

326 Frances R. Havergal : Christmas Mottoes. 

Heap on more wood ! the wind is chill ; 

But let it whistle as it will. 

We '11 keep our Christmas merry still. 

327 Scott : Marmion, Canto vi., Introduction. 

'T was the night before Christmas, when all through 

the house 
Not a creature was stirring, — not even a mouse. 
Clement C. Moore: A Visit from St. 

328 Nicholas. 

Church. 

Who builds a church to God, and not to fame, 
Will never mark the marble with his name. 

329 Pope : Moral Essays, Epis. iii., Line 285. 

" What is a church? " Let truth and reason speak; 
They would reply — " The faithful pure and meek, 
From Christian folds, the one selected race, 
Of all professions, and in every place." 

330 Crabbe : The Borough, Letter ii. 

Churchyard. 

The solitary, silent, solemn scene, 

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Blended in dust together ; where the slave 
Rests from his labors ; where th' insulting proud 
Resigns his power ; the miser drops his hoard ; 
Where human folly sleeps. 

331 Dyer: Ruins of Rome, Line 640. 

Churlishness. 

My master is of churlish disposition, 
And little recks to find the way to heaven, 
By doing deeds of hospitality. 

332 Shaks. : As You Like It, Act ii., Sc. 4. 

Circumstance. 

And grasps the skirts of happy chance, 
And breasts the blows of circumstance. 

333 Tennyson : In Memoriam, Pt. lxiii., St. 2. 

Citadel. 

A tower'd citadel, a pendent rock, 

A forked mountain, or blue promontory 

With trees upon't. 

334 Shaks. : Ant. and Cleo., Act iv., Sc. 14. 



Citizens. 
Before man made us citizens, great Nature made 
us men. 

James Russell Lowell: The Capture 

335 of Fugitive Slaves. 

City. 

As one who long in populous city pent, 
Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air. 

336 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. ix., Line 445. 



54 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Civilities. 

Love taught him shame ; and shame, with love at 

strife, 
Soon taught the sweet civilities of life. 

337 Dryden : Cym. and Iph., Line 133. 

Clay. 

Tho' he trip and fall, 
He shall not blind his soul with clay. 

338 Tennyson : The Princess, PL vii., Line 308. 

Cleanliness. 

E'en from the body's purity, the mind 
Receives a secret sympathetic aid. 

339 Thomson : Seasons, Summer, Line 1269. 

Clergyman. 

Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, 
And still where many a garden flow'r grows wild, 
There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, 
The village preacher's modest mansion rose. 
A man he was to all the country dear, 
And passing rich with forty pounds a year. 

340 Goldsmith : Des. Village, Line 137. 

Cliff. 

As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, 

Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the 

storm, — 
Though round its breast the rolling clouds are 

spread, 
Eternal sunshine settles on its head. 

341 Goldsmith : Des. Village, Line 189. 



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Clime. 

Forc'd from their homes, a melancholy train. 
To traverse climes beyond the western main. 

342 Goldsmith : Traveller, Line 409. 

Cloak. 

Itt 's pride that putts the countrye doune, 
Then take thine old cloake about thee. 

343 Percy: Take Thy Old Cloak About Thee. 

Clock. 

Till like a clock worn out with eating time, 
The wheels of weary life at last stood still. 

344 Dryden : GZdijpus, Act iv., Sc. 1. 

Clothes. 

The naked every day he clad 
When he put on his clothes. 

345 Goldsmith : Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog. 

Clouds. 

Circling the mountains the gray clouds go 
Heavy with storms as a mother with child, 
Seeking release from their burden of snow 
With calm slow motion they cross the wild — 
Stately and sombre, they catch and cling 
To the barren crags of the peaks in the west, 
Weary with waiting, and mad for rest. 

346 Hamlin Garland : The Clouds. 



Clouds on the western side 
Grow gray and grayer, hiding the warm sun. 
347 Christina G. Rossetti : Twilight Calm. 



56 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Those clouds are angels' robes. — That fiery west 
Is paved with smiling faces. 

Charles Kingsley : Saint's Tragedy, 

348 Act i., Sc. 3. 

Coach. 

Go, call a coach, and let a coach be call'd, 

And let the man who calleth be the caller, 

And in his calling let him nothing call 

But coach ! coach ! coach ! oh, for a coach, ye gods ! 

349 Carey : Chrononhotonthologos, Act i., Sc. 3. 

Cock-crowing. 

The early village cock 
Hath twice done salutation to the morn. 

350 Shaks. : Richard III., Act v., Sc. 3. 

Coincidence. 

A " strange coincidence," to use a phrase 
By which such things are settled nowadays. 

351 Byron : Don Juan, Canto vi., St. 78. 

Cold. 

The cold in clirne are cold in blood, 
Their love can scarce deserve the name. 

352 Byron : Giaour, Line 1099. 

For this relief much thanks : 't is bitter cold, 
And I am sick at heart. 

353 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 1. 

Coliseum. 

" While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand ; 
When falls the Coliseum, Borne shall fall ; 
And when Rome falls — the world." 

354 Byron : Oh. Harold, Canto iv., St. 145. 



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Colossus. 

Why, man, lie dotli bestride the narrow world 
Like a Colossus, and we petty men 
Walk under his huge legs and peep about 
To rind ourselves dishonorable graves. 

355 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar, Act i., Sc. 2. 

Colors. 

I took it for a faery vision 
Of some gay creatures of the element, 
That in the colors of the rainbow live, 
And play i' th' plighted clouds. 

356 Milton : Comus, Line 298. 

Columbia. 

Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise, 
The queen of the world and child of the skies ! 
Thy genius commands thee ; with rapture behold, 
While ages on ages thy splendors unfold. 

357 Timothy Dwight : Columbia. 

Column. 

Where London's column, pointing at the skies, 
Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies. 

358 Pope : Moral Essays, Epis. iii., Line 339. 

Combat. 

The combat deepens. On, ye brave, 
Who rush to glory or the grave ! 

359 Campbell: Hohenlindcn. 

Comet. 

Incens'd with indignation Satan stood 
Lmterrify'd, and like a comet burn'd 



58 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge 
In th' Arctic sky, and from his horrid hair 
Shakes pestilence and war. 

360 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. ii., Line 707. 

Comfort. 

O, my good lord, that comfort comes too late ; 
'T is like a pardon after execution ; 
That gentle physic, given in time, had cur'd me ; 
But now I 'ni past all comforts here but prayers. 

361 Shaks. : Henry VIII., Act iv., Sc. 2. 

Commandments. 

Could I come near your beauty with my nails, 
I 'd set my ten commandments in your face. 

362 Shaks. : 2 Henry VI., Act L, Sc. 3. 

Commentators. 

How commentators each dark passage shun, 
And hold their farthing candle to the sun. 

363 Young : Love of Fame, Satire vii., Line 97. 

Commerce. 

Where wealth and freedom reign contentment 

fails, 
And honor sinks where commerce long prevails. 

364 Goldsmith : Traveller, Line 91. 

Communion. 

When one that holds communion with the skies 
Has fill'd his urn where these pure waters rise, 
And once more mingles with us meaner things, 
'Tis e'en as if an angel shook his wings. 

365 Cowper : Charity, Line 435. 



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Companions. 

Oh could I fly. I 'd fly with thee ! 

We *d make with joyful wing 
Our annual visit o'er the globe, 

Companions of the spring. 
366 John Logan ■ To the Cuckoo. 

Comparisons. 

When the moon shone, we did not see the candle : 

So doth the greater glory dim the less. 

307 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act v.. Sc. 1. 

In virtues nothing earthly could surpass her. 
Save thine -incomparable oil." Macassar! 

368 Byron : Don Juan. Canto i.. St. 17. 

Compass. 

Though pleased to see the dolphins play. 
I mind my compass and my way. 

369 Matthew Green : Spleen. Line 93. 

Compassion. 

0. heavens ! can you hear a good man groan. 

And not relent, or not compassion him? 

37m Shaks. : Titus And.. Act iv.. Sc. 1. 

Compensation. 

Under the storm and the cloud to-day. 

And to-day the hard peril and pain — 

To-morrow the stone shall be rolled away. 

For the sunshine shall follow the rain. 

Merciful Father. I will not complain. 

I know that the sunshine shall follow the rain. 

371 Joaquin Miller : For Princess Maud. 



60 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Complexion. 

Mislike me not for my complexion, 

The shadow'd livery of the burnish'd sun. 

372 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act ii., Sc. 1. 

Compulsion. 

Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie. 

373 Milton : Arcades, Line 68. 

Concealment. 

She never told her love, 
But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, 
Feed on her damask cheek. 

374 Shaks. : Tw. Night, Act ii., Sc. 3. 

Conceit. 

Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works. 

375 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 4. 

Conclusion. 

But this denoted a foregone conclusion. 

376 Shaks. : Othello, Act iii., Sc. 3. 

Concord. 

Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell, 
Uproar the universal peace, confound 
All unity on earth. 

377 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act iv., Sc. 3. 

Condemnation. 

To each his suff 'rings ; all are men, 

Condemn'd alike to groan, — 
The tender for another's pain, 

Th' unfeeling for his own. 

378 Gray: On a Distant Prospect of Eton College. 



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Confession. 

Come, now again thy woes impart, 
Tell all thy sorrows, all thy sin ; 
We cannot heal the throbbing heart, 
Till we discern the wounds within. 

379 Crabbe: Hall of Justice, Pt. ii. 

Confidence. 

I will believe 
Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know ; 
And so far will I trust thee. 

380 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV., Act ii., Sc. 3. 

Conflict. 

Arms on armor clashing bray'd 
Horrible discord, and the madding wheels 
Of brazen chariots rag'd ; dire was the noise 
Of conflict. 

381 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. vi., Line 209. 

Confusion. 

Ruin seize thee, ruthless king ! 
Confusion on thy banners wait ! 

382 Gray : The Bard, Pt. i., St. 1. 

With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, 
Confusion worse confounded. 

383 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. ii., Line 995. 

Congregation. 

Wherever God erects a house of prayer, 
The Devil always builds a chapel there ; 
And 't will be found, upon examination, 
The latter has the largest congregation. 

Defoe : True-Born Englishman, Pt. i., 

384 Line 1. 



62 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Conquest. 

Though fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing, 
They mock the air with idle state. 

385 Gray : The Bard, Pt. i., St. 1. 

Conscience. 

Thus conscience does make cowards of us all ; 
And thus the native hue of resolution 
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought ; 
And enterprises of great pith and moment, 
With this regard their currents turn awry, 
And lose the name of action. 

386 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 1. 

conscience, into what abyss of fears 

And horrors hast thou driven me ; out of which 

1 find no way, from deep to deeper plung'd ! 

387 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. x., Line 842. 



But, at sixteen, the conscience rarely gnaws 
So much, as when we call our old debts in 
At sixty years, and draw the accounts of evil, 
And find a deuced balance with the devil. 

388 Byron : Don Juan, Canto i., St. 167. 

Consideration. 

Consideration like an angel came, 

And whipp'd the offending Adam out of him. 

389 Shaks. : Henry V., Act i., Sc. 1. 

Consistency. 

Gineral C. is a dreffle smart man ; 

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But consistency still wuz a part of his plan, — 
He 's ben true to one party, an' thet is himself. 

James Russell Lowell : Biglow Papt rs, 

390 No. ii. 

Consolation. 

This grief is crowned with consolation. 

391 Shaks. : Ant. and Cleo., Act i., Sc. 2. 

Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd ; 
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; 
Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; 
And, with some sweet oblivious antidote, 
Cleanse the stuff d bosom of that perilous stuff, 
Which weighs upon the heart ? 

392 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act v., Sc. 3. 

Conspiracy. 

Conspiracies no sooner should be formed 
Than executed. 

393 Addison : Cato, Act i., Sc. 2. 

Constancy. 

I am constant as the northern star, 

Of whose true-fix'd, and resting quality 

There is no fellow in the firmament. 

394 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar, Act iii., Sc. 1. 



Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; 
But whispering tongues can poison truth, 
And constancy lives in realms above. 

395 Coleridge : Christabel, Pt. ii. 



64 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Consummation. 

To die : to sleep : 
No more ; and by a sleep to say we end 
The heartache and the thousand natural shocks 
That flesh is heir to, — 'tis a consummation 
Devoutly to be wish'd. 

396 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 1. 

Contemplation. 

For contemplation he and valor form'd, 
For softness she and sweet attractive grace. 

397 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. iv., Line 297. 

Contempt. 

From no one vice exempt, 
And most contemptible to shun contempt. 

398 Pope : Moral Essays, Epis. i., Line 194. 

Contention. 

Sons and brothers at a strife ! 
What is your quarrel? how began it first? 
— No quarrel, but a slight contention. 

399 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI., Act i., Sc. 2. 

Contentment. 

He that commends me to mine own content, 
Commends me to the thing I cannot get. 

400 Shaks. : Com. of Errors, Act i., Sc. 2. 

This is the charm, by sages often told, 
Converting all it touches into gold : 
Content can soothe, where'er by fortune placed, 
Can rear a garden in the desert waste. 

Henry Kirke White : Clifton Grove, 

401 Line 139. 



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Contradiction. 

Woman's at best a contradiction still. 

402 Pope : Moral Est i\ i, Epis. ii.. Lin 

Controversy. 

Great contest follows, and much learned dust 
Involves the combatants: each claiming truth. 
And truth disclaiming both. 

403 Cowpeb : Task, Bk. iii.. Line 161. 

Conversation. 

A dearth of words a woman need not fear ; 
But *t is a task indeed to learn — to hear: 
In that the skill of conversation lies : 
That shows or make- you both polite and wise. 

404 Young : Love of Fame. Satire v., Line 57. 

Converts. 

More proselytes and converts use t' accrue 
• To false persuasions than the right and true : 
For error and mistake are infinite, 
But truth has but one way to be l th" right. 

405 Butler : Misc. Thoughts. Line 113. 

Cooks. 

Heaven sends us good meat ; but the devil sends 
cooks. 

406 Garrick: Epigr. on Goldsmith's RetaL 

Coquette. 

Or light or dark, or short or tall. 
She sets a springe to snare them all : 
All \s one to her — above her fan 
She "d make sweet eyes at Caliban. 

407 T. B. Aldrich : Coquette. 



66 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Corruption. 

Corruption is a tree, whose branches are 
Of an immeasurable length : they spread 
Ev'ry where ; and the dew that drops from thence 
Hath infected some chairs and stools of authority. 
Beaumont and Fletcher : Hon, Man's For., 

408 Act iii., Sc. 3. 

At length corruption, like a general flood, 
(So long by watchful ministers withstood,) 
Shall deluge all ; and avarice creeping on, 
Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun. 

409 Pope : Moral Essays, Epis. iii., Line 135. 

Counsel. 

Bosom up my counsel, 
You '11 find it wholesome. 

410 Shaks. : Henry VIII., Act i., Sc. 1. 

Here thou, great Anna ! whom three realms obey, 
Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea; 

411 Pope : it. of the Lock, Canto iii., Line 7. 

Country. 

God made the country, and man made the town ; 
What wonder, then, that health and virtue, gifts, 
That can alone make sweet the bitter draught 
That life holds out to all, should most abound, 
And least be threatened in the fields and groves ? 

412 Cowper : Task, Bk. i., Line 749. 

True patriots all ; for be it understood 
We left our country for our country's good. 

George Barrington : Prologue written for 
the Opening of the Playhouse at New South 

413 Wales, Jan. 16, 1796. 



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Courage. 

What man dare, I dare. 
Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, 
The arm'd Rhinoceros, or th' Hyrcanian tiger. 
Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves 
Shall never tremble. 

414 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act iii., Sc. 4. 



I dare do all that may become a man : 

Who dares do more is none. 

415 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act i., Sc. 7. 



No thought of flight, 
None of retreat, no unbecoming deed 
That argued fear ; each on himself relied, 
As only in his arm the moment lay 
Of victory. 

416 Milton, Par. Lost, Bk. vi., Line 236. 

Court — Courtiers. 

The caterpillars of the commonwealth, 
Whom I have soon to weed and pluck away. 

417 Shaks. : Richard II., Act ii., Sc. 3. 

Not a courtier, 
Although they wear their faces to the bent 
Of the king's looks, hath a heart that is not 
Glad at the thing they scowl at. 

418 Shaks. : Cymbeline, Act i., Sc. 1. 

A mere court butterfly, 
That flutters in the pageant of a monarch. 

419 Byron : Sardanajmhis, Act v., Sc. 1 . 



68 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Courtesy. 

How sweet and gracious, even in common speech, 
Is that fine sense which men call Courtesy ! 
Wholesome as air and genial as the light, 
Welcome in every clime as breath of flowers, — 
It transmutes aliens into trusting friends, 
And gives its owner passport round the globe. 

420 James T. Fields : Courtesy. 

Courtship. 

Bring, therefore, all the forces that you may, 
And lay incessant battery to her heart ; 
Plaints, prayers, vows, ruth, and sorrow, and dis- 
may, — 
These engines can the proudest love convert. 

Spenser : Amoretti and Epithalamion, 

421 Sonnet xiv. 

She is a woman, therefore may be woo'd ; 
She is a woman, therefore may be won. 

422 Shaks. : Titus And., Act ii., Sc. 1. 

He that would win his dame must do 
As love does when he draws his bow ; 
With one hand thrust the lady from, 
And with the other pull her home. 

Butler : Hudibras, Pt. ii., Canto i., 

423 Line 449. 

Covetousness. 

When workmen strive to do better than well, 
They do confound their skill in covetousness. 

424 Shaks. : King John, Act iv., Sc. 2. 



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Cowardice. 

( ). that a mighty man, of such descent, 
Of such possessions, and bo high esteem, 
Should be infused with so foul a spirit ! 
4:2 j Siiaks. : Tarn, of the S., Introduction. 

Cowards die many times before their deaths ; 
The valiant never taste of death but once. 

426 Siiaks.: Jul. Ccesar, Act ii.. Sc. 2. 

The man that lays his hand upon a woman, 
Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch 
Whom 't were gross flattery to name a coward. 

427 Johx Tobin : Honeymoon, Act ii., Sc. 1. 

The coward never on himself relies, 
But to an equal for assistance flies. 

428 Crabbe : Tale iii., Line 84. 

Cowslips. 

With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, 
And every flower that sad embroidery wears. 

429 Milt ox : Lye id as, Line 139. 

•Coxcombs. 

So by false learning is good sense def ac'd ; 

Some are bewilder'd in the maze of schools, 

And some made coxcombs, nature meant but fools. 

430 Pope : E. on Criticism, Pt. i., Line 25. 

And coxcombs vanquish Berkeley by a grin. 

431 Johx Brown : An Essay on Satire. 

Cradle. 

Me let the tender office long engage 
To rock the cradle of reposing age. 

432 Pope : Prologue to the Satires, Line 408. 



70 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Craftiness. 

That for ways that are dark 
And for tricks that are vain, 
The heathen Chinee is peculiar. 

Bret Harte: Plain Language from 

433 Truthful James. 

Creation. 

Creation sleeps ! 'T is as the general pulse 
Of life stood still, and Xature made a pause, — 
An awful pause ! prophetic of her end. 

434 Young : Night Thoughts, Night i., Line 23. 

Credit. 

Blest paper credit ! last and best supply ! 
That lends corruption lighter wings to fly. 

435 Pope : Moral Essays, Epis. iii., Line 39. 

Creed. 

Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side 
In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree? 
Shall I give up the friend I have valued and tried, 
If he kneel not before the same altar with me ? 

436 Moore : Come, Send Round the Wine. 

Crime. 

Between the acting of a dreadful thing 
And the first motion, all the interim is 
Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream. 

437 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar, Act ii., Sc. 1. 

One murder made a villain, 
Millions a hero. Princes w T ere privileged 
To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime. 

438 Beilby Porteus : Death, Line 154. 



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Criticism — Critics. 

I am nothing if not critical. 

439 Siiaks. : Othello, Act ii., Sc. 1. 

Critics I saw, that other names deface, 
And fix their own. with labor, in their place. 

440 Pope : Temple of Fame, Line 37. 

Cromwell. 

Cromwell, our chief of men. who through a cloud, 
Xot of war only, but detractions rude, 
Guided by faith and matchless fortitude. 
To peace and truth thy glorious way hast plougrTd. 
aIiltox: Sonnets, To the Lord General 

441 Cromwell. 

Cross. 

The moon of Mahomet 
Arose, and it shall set ; 
While, blazoned as on heaven's immortal noon. 
The cross leads generations on. 

442 Shelley: Hellas, Line 221. 

Crowd. 

Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife 
Their sober wishes never learn'd to strav. 

443 Gray: Elegy, St, 19. 

Crown. 

Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown. 
And put a barren sceptre in my gripe. 

444 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act iii., Sc. 1. 

What seem'd his head 
The likeness of a kingly crown had on. 
Satan was now at hand. 

445 Miltox : Par. Lost, Bk. ii., Line 666. 



72 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Cruelty. 

A stony adversary, an inhuman wretch, 
Uncapable of pity, void and empty 
From any dram of mercy. 

446 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act iv., Sc. 1. 

Cupid. 

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, 
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. 

447 Shaks. : Mid. N. Dream, Act i., Sc. 1. 

Cupid is a casuist, 

A mystic, and a cabalist, — 

Can your lurking thought surprise, 

And interpret your device. . . . 

Heralds high before him run ; 

He has ushers many a one ; 

He spreads his welcome where he goes, 

And touches all things with his rose. 

All things wait for and divine him, — 

How shall I dare to malign him? 

448 Emerson : Da'em. and Celes., Love, Pt. i. 

Cure. 

'T is an ill cure 
For life's worst ills, to have no time to feel them. 
Sir Henry Taylor : Philip Van Artevelde, 

449 Pt. i., Act i., Sc. 5. 

Curfew. 

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, 
The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, 

The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, 
And leaves the world to darkness and to me. 

450 Gray: Elegy, St. 1. 



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Curiosity. 

I loathe that low vice, curiosity. 

451 Byron: Don Juan, Canto L, St. 23. 

Curls. 

Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod, — 
The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god. 

452 Pope : Iliad, Bk. i., Line 084. 

Current. 

We must take the current when it serves, 
Or lose our ventures. 

453 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar, Act iv., Sc. 3. 

Curses. 

Let this pernicious hour 
Stand aye accursed in the calendar. 

454 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act iv., Sc. 1. 

But in their stead 
Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honor, breath, 
Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare 
not. 

455 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act v., Sc. 3. 

It was that fatal and perfidious bark. 

Built in tlr eclipse, and rigg'd with curses dark. 

456 Milton : Lycidas, Line 100. 

Custom. 

How use doth breed a habit in a man ! 

457 Shaks. : Two Gent, of V., Act v., Sc. 4. 

Custom calls me to 't ; — 
What custom wills, in all things should we do "t ? 

458 Shaks.: Coriolanus, Act ii., Sc. 3. 



74 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Assume a virtue, if you have it not. 

That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, 

Of habits devil, is angel yet in this. 

459 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 4. 

Cypress. 

Dark tree! still sad when others' grief is fled, 
The only constant mourner o'er the dead. 

460 Byron : Giaour, Line 286. 

D. 

Daffadills. 

Fair daffadills, we weep to see 

You haste away so soon : 
As yet the early rising sun 

Has not attained his noon . 

461 Herrick : To Daffadills. 

Dagger. 

Is this a dagger which I see before me, 
The handle toward my hand? . . . 
or art thou but 
A dagger of the mind, a false creation, 
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain ? 

462 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act ii., Sc. 1. 

Daisy. 

The daisy's cheek is tipp'd with a blush, 
She is of such low degree. 

463 Hood : Flowers. 

Damnation. 

And deal damnation round the land. 

464 Pope : The Universal Prayer, St, 7. 



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Damsel. 

A damsel with a dulcimer 

In a vision once I saw. 

465 Coleridge: Kulla Khan. 

Dancing. 

Alike all ages : dames of ancient days 
Have led their children through the mirthful maze : 
And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore, 
Has frisk'd beneath the burden of threescore. 

466 Goldsmith : Traveller, Line 251. 

Her feet beneath her petticoat, 
Like little mice, stole in and out, 

As if they feared the light : 
But. oh ! she dances such a way ! 
Xo sun upon an Easter-day 

Is half so tine a sight. 

467 Suckling : On a Wedding. 

Come and trip it as you go 

On the light fantastic toe. 

40- Milton : V Allegro, Line 33. 

On with the dance ! let joy be unconfined ! 

Xo sleep till morn, when youth and pleasure meet. 

To chase the glowing hours with riving feet. 

469 Byron : Ch. Harold, Canto in., St. 22. 

You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, 
Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone? 

470 Byron: Don Juan, Canto iii., St. S6. 10. 

Danger. 

He that stands upon a slippery place, 
Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up. 

471 Shaks. : King John, Act iii.. Sc. 4. 



76 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, 
safety. 

472 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV., Act ii., Sc. 3. 

Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, 
Nor thought of tender happiness betray. 

Wordsworth : Character of the Happy 

473 Warrior. 

Dante. 

Oh their Dante of the dread Inferno, 
Wrote one song — and in my brain I sing it. 

474 Robert Browning : One Word More, xvii. 

Daring. 

I dare do all that may become a man ; 
Who dares do more is none. 

475 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act i., Sc. 7 

The bravest are the tenderest, — 
The loving are the daring. 

476 Bayard Taylor: The Song of the Camp. 

Darkness. 

Lo ! darkness bends down like a mother of grief 
On the limitless plain, and the fall of her hair 
It has mantled a world. 

477 Joaquin Miller : From Sea to Sea, St. 4. 



Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall, 
And universal darkness buries all. 

478 Pope : Dunciad, Bk. iv., Line 649. 



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Dart. 

Th' adorning thee with so much art 

Is but a barb'rous skill; 
'T is like the pois'ning of a dart, 

Too apt before to kill. 

479 Abraham Cowley : The Waiting Maid. 

Daughter. 

Still harping on my daughter. 

480 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act ii., Sc. 2. 

Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter ! 
Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea. 

481 Moore : Lalla Rookh, The Fire- Worshippers. 

Dawn. 

The morning steals upon the night, 
Melting the darkness. 

482 Shaks. : Tempest, Act v., Sc. 1. 

The day begins to break, and night is fled, 
Whose pitchy mantle over-veil'd the earth. 

483 Shaks. : 1 Henry VI., Act ii., Sc. 2. 

Clothing the palpable and familiar 
With golden exhalations of the dawn. 

Coleridge : Death of Wallenstein, Act i., 

484 Sc. 1. 

Day, Days. 

At the close of the day when the hamlet is still, 
And mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, , 
When naught but the torrent is heard on the hill, 
And naught but the nightingale's song in the 
grove. 

485 Beattie : The Hermit 



78 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

My days are in the yellow leaf ; 

The flowers and fruits of love are gone ; 
The worm, the canker, and the grief 

Are mine alone ! 

486 Byron : On my Thirty-sixth Year. 

One of those heavenly days that cannot die. 

487 Wordsworth : Nutting. 

Death. 

Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, 

It seems to me most strange that men should fear ; 

Seeing that death, a necessary end, 

Will come, when it will come. 

488 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar, Act ii., Sc. 2. 

Kings and mightiest potentates must die, 
For that 's the end of human misery. 

489 Shaks. : 1 Henry VI., Act iii., Sc. 2. 

Death lies on her, like an untimely frost 
Upon the sweetest flower of all the field. 

490 Shaks. : Rom. and Jul., Act iv., Sc. 5. 

Though death be poor, it ends a mortal woe. 

491 Shaks. : Richard II., Act ii., Sc. 1. 

Behind her death, 
Close following pace for pace, not mounted yet 
On his pale horse. 

492 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. x., Line 588. 

Come to the bridal chamber, Death ! 
Come to the mother's, when she feels, 
For the first time, her first-born's breath ; 
Come when the blessed seals 



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That close the pestilence are broke, 
And crowded cities wail its stroke ; 
Come in consumption's ghastly form, 
The earthquake shock, the ocean storm ; 
Come when the heart beats high and warm, 
With banquet song, and dance, and wine ; 
And thou art terrible, — the tear, 
The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier, 
And all we know, or dream, or fear 
Of agony are thine. 

493 Fitz-Greene Halleck : Marco Bozzaris. 

Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow. 

494 Young : Night Thoughts, Night v., Line 1011. 

To every man upon this earth 
Death cometh soon or late. 

495 Macaulay : Lays Arte. Ro?ne, Horatius, xxvii. 

Leaves have their times to fall, 

And flowers to whither at the north wind's breath, 

And stars to set — but all, 

Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O death. 

496 Mrs. Hemans : Hour of Death. 

Death is only kind to mortals. 

497 Schiller : Complaint of Ceres, St. 4. 

What a strange, delicious amazement is Death, 
To be without body and breathe without breath. 

498 Edwin Arnold : She and He. 

There is no Death ! What seems so is transition ; 

This life of mortal breath 
Is but a suburb of the life elysian, 

Whose portal we call death. 

499 Longfellow : Resignation, St. 5. 



80 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Our days begin with trouble here, 

Our life is but a span, 
And cruel death is always near, 

So frail a thing is man. 

500 From the New England Primer. 

Death rides on every passing breeze, 
He lurks in every flower. 

501 Heber : At a Funeral, No. i. 

How wonderful is Death ! 
Death and his brother Sleep. 

502 Shelley : Queen Mab, St. i. 

And Death is beautiful as feet of friend 
Coming with welcome at our journey's end. 

James Russell Lowell : To George 

503 William Curtis. 

Death in itself is nothing ; but we fear 

To be we know not what, we know not where. 

504 Dryden : Aurengzebe, Act iv., Sc. 1. 

Debt. 

You say, you nothing owe; and so I say : 
He only owes, who something hath to pay. 

505 Martial: (Hay), ii., 3. 

Decay. 

Before decay's effacing fingers 

Have swept the lines where beauty lingers. 

506 Byron : Giaour, Line 68. 

The ruins of himself ! now worn away 
With age, yet still majestic in decay. 

507 Pope: Odyssey, Bk. xxiv., Line 271. 



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Deceit. 

Ah, that deceit should steal such gentle shapes, 
And with a virtuous visor hide deep vice. 

508 Shaks. : Richard III., Act ii., Sc. 2. 

O, what a tangled web we weave, 
When first we practise to deceive. 

509 Scott : Marmion, Canto vi., St. 17. 

December. 

And after him came next the chill December : 
Yet he, through merry feasting which he made 
And great bonfires, did not the cold remember ; 
His Saviour's birth his mind so much did glad. 
Spenser : Faerie Queene, Bk. vii., Canto vii., 

510 St. 41. 

As soon 
Seek roses in December, ice in June. 

Byron : English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, 

511 Line 75. 

Decency. 

Immodest words admit of no defence, 
For want of decency is want of sense. 

Earl of Roscommon : Essay on Translated 

512 Verse, Line 113. 

Decision. 

If it were done, when 't is done, then 't were well 
It were done quickly. 

513 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act i., Sc. 7. 

Once to every man and nation comes the moment 

to decide, 
In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the 

good or evil side ; 



82 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Some great cause. God's new Messiah offering 
each the bloom or blight. 

Parts the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep 
upon the right ; 

And the choice goes by forever "twixt that dark- 
ness and that light. 

514 James Russell Lowell : Present Crisis. 

Deeds. 

And with necessity, 
The tyrant's plea, excus'd his devilish deeds. 

515 Milton: Par. Lost, Bk. iv., Line 393. 

Oh ! 't is easy 
To beget great deeds ; but in the rearing of them — 
The threading in cold blood each mean detail. 
And furze brake of half-pertinent circumstance — 
There lies the self-denial. 

Charles Kingsley : Saint's Tragedy, 

516 Act iv., Sc. 3. 

Deep. 

Embosonrd in the deep where Holland lies, 
Methinks her patient sons before me stand, 
Where the broad ocean leans against the land. 

517 Goldsmith: Traveller, Line 282. 

Defeat. 

Such a numerous host 
Fled not in silence through the frighted deep, 
With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout. 
Confusion worse confounded. 

518 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. ii.. Line 993. 

Defect. 

So may a glory from defect arise. 

519 Robert Browning: Deaf and Dumb. 



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Defence. 

What boots it at one gate to make defence, 
And at another to let in the foe ? 

520 Milton : Samson Agonistes, Line 560. 

Defiance. 

I do defy him, and I spit at him ; 
Call him a slanderous coward, and a villain : 
Which to maintain, I would allow him odds ; 
And meet him, were I tied to run a-foot, 
Even to the frozen ridges of the Alps. 

521 Shaks. : Richard II., Act i., Sc. 1. 

Deity. 

Hail, source of being ! universal soul 
Of heaven and earth ! essential presence, hail ! 
To Thee I bend the knee; to Thee my thoughts 
Continual, climb ; who, with a master hand, 
Hast the great wmole into perfection touch 'd. 

522 Thomson: Seasons, Spring, Line 556. 

Dejection. 

As high as we have mounted in delight, 
In our dejection do we sink as low. 

Wordsworth : Resolution and Independence, 

523 St. 4. 

Delay. 

Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary. 

524 Shaks. : Richard III., Act iv., Sc. 3. 

Be wise to-day ; 't is madness to defer ; 
Next . day the fatal precedent will plead ; 
Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. 

525 Young : Night Thoughts, Night i., Line 390. 



84 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Deliberation. 

Deep on his front engraven, 
Deliberation sat, and public care. 

526 Milton: Par. Lost, Bk. ii., Line 300. 

Delight. 

She was a phantom of delight 
When first she gleamed upon my sight, 
A lovely apparition, sent 
To be a moment's ornament. 

Wordsworth : She was a Phantom of 

527 Delight. 

Delusion. 

For love of grace, 
Lay not that flattering unction to your soul 
That not your trespass but my madness speaks : 
It will but skin and film the ulcerous place : 
Whiles rank corruption, mining all within, 
Infects unseen. 

528 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 4. 

Denmark. 

Something is rotten in the State of Denmark. 

529 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 4. 

Deportment. 

What 's a fine person, or a beauteous face, 
Unless deportment gives them decent grace ? 
Blest with all other requisites to please, 
Some want the striking elegance of ease; 
The curious eye their awkward movement tires ; 
They seem like puppets led about by wires. 

530 Churchill: Rosciad, Line 741. 



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Depravity. 

God's love seemed lost upon him. 

531 JJailey: FestuSj Sc. Heaven. 

Depression. 

All day the darkness and the cold 

Upon my heart have lain, 
Like shadows on the winter sky, 

Like frost upon the pane. 

532 Whittier : On Receiving an Eagle's Quill. 

Desert. 

In the cold grave, under the deep, deep sea, 
Or in the wide desert where no life is found. 

533 Hood : Sonnet, Silence. 

The keenest pangs the wretched find 

Are rapture to the dreary void, 
The leafless desert of the mind, 

The waste of feelings unemployed. 

534 Byron: Giaour, Line 957. 

Desire (Love). 

It liveth not in fierce desire, 

With dead desire it doth not die. 

Scott: Lay of the Last Minstrel, Canto v., 

535 St. 13. 

Desolation. 

Desolate ! Life is so dreary and desolate. 
Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, 
Yet with itself every soul standeth single, 
Deep out of sympathy moaning its moan ; 
Holding and having its brief exultation ; 
Making its lonesome and low lamentation ; 
Fighting its terrible conflicts alone. 

536 Alice Cary : Life. 



86 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Despair. 

Despair defies even despotism ; there is 

That in my heart would make its way thro' hosts 

With levell'd spears. 

537 Byron: Two Foscari, Act i., Sc, 1. 

Then black despair, 
The shadow of a starless night, was thrown 
Over the world in which I moved alone. 

538 Shelley: Revolt of Islam, Dedication, St. 6. 

The strongest and the fiercest spirit 
That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair. 

539 Milton: Par. Lost, Bk. ii., Line 44. 

Destiny. 

That old miracle — Love-at-first-sight — 
Needs no explanations. The heart reads aright 
Its destiny sometimes. 

Owen Meredith: Lucile, Pt. ii., Canto vi.. 

540 St. 16. 

Where'er she lie, 

Locked up from mortal eye, 

In shady leaves of destiny. 

Richard Crashaw : Wishes to his Supposed 

541 Mistress. 

Determination. 

I '11 speak to it, though hell itself should gape, 
And bid me hold my peace. 

542 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 2. 

Detraction. 

Happy are they that hear their detractions, 
And can put them to mending. 

543 Shaks.: Much Ado, Act ii., Sc. 3. 



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A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; 
At every word a reputation dies. 

544 Pope: R. of the Lock, Canto iii., Line 15. 

Devil. 

'T is the eye of childhood 
That fears a painted devil. 

545 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act ii., Sc. 2. 

The devil was sick, the devil a saint would be ; 
The devil was well, the devil a saint was he. 

546 Rabelais : Works, Bk. iv., Ch. xxiv. 

Devotion. 

As down in the sunless retreats of the ocean 
Sweet flowers are springing no mortal can see, 
So deep in my soul the still prayer of devotion 
Unheard by the world, rises silent to Thee. 

547 Moore: .4s Down in the Sunless Retreats. 

Dew. 

What gentle ghost, besprent with April dew, 
Hails me so solemnly to yonder yew? 

548 Ben" Jonsox: Elegy on the Lady Jane Pawlet. 

Dial. 

True as the dial to the sun, 
Although it be not shin'd upon. 

Butler: Hudibras, Pt. iii., Canto ii., 

549 Line 175. 

Difficulty. 

It is as hard to come, as for a camel 
To thread the postern of a needle's eye. 

550 Shaks.: Richard II. , Act v., Sc. 5. 



50 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Dignity. 

Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, 
In every gesture dignity and love. 

551 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. viii., Line 488. 

Digression. 

And there began a lang digression 
About the lords o' the creation. 

552 Burns: The Twa Dogs. 

Dinner. 

Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. 

553 Byron : Don Juan, Canto xiii., St. 99. 

Disappointment. 

Oh ! that a dream so sweet, so long enjoy'd, 
Should be so sadly, cruelly destroy'd ! 

Moore : Lalla Rookh, Veiled Prophet of 

554 Khorassan. 

Discord. 

Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay. 

Spenser : Faerie Queene, Bk. iii., Canto ii., 

555 St. 15. 

From hence, let fierce contending nations know 
What dire effects from civil discord flow. 

556 Addison : Cato, Act ii., Sc. 4. 

Discourse. 

Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, 
Looking before and after, gave us not 
That capability and godlike reason 
To fust in us unused. 

557 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act iv., Sc. 4. 



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Discretion. 

Let 's teach ourselves that honorable stop, 
Not to outsport discretion. 

558 Shaks. : Othello, Act ii., Sc. 3. 

It shewed discretion, the best part of valor. 

Beaumont and Fletcher: King and No 

559 King, Act iv. ? Sc. 3. 

Diseases. 

Diseases, desperate grown, 
By desperate appliance are reliev'd, 
Or not at all. 

560 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act iv., Sc. 3. 

Disguise. 

'T is great, 't is manly, to disdain disguise ; 
It shows our spirit, or it proves our strength. 

Young : Night Thoughts, Night viii., 

561 Line 372. 

Dislike. 

I do not love thee, Doctor Fell, 
The reason why I cannot tell ; 
But this alone I know full well, 
I do not love thee, Doctor Fell. 

562 Tom Brown : Trans, of Martial's Ep. L, 33. 

Disobedience. 

Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit 
Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste 
Brought death into the world, and all our woe. 

563 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. i., Line 1. 



90 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Disorder. 

You have displac'd the mirth, broke the good 

meeting, 
With most admir'd disorder. 

564 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act iii., Sc. 4. 

Disposition. 

He is of a very melancholy disposition. 

565 Shaks. : Much Ado, Act i., Sc. 1. 

Dispute. 

'T is strange how some men's tempers suit, 
Like bawd and brandy, with dispute, 
That for their own opinions stand fast, 
Only to have them claw'd and canvass'd. 

566 Butler : Hudibras, Pt. ii., Canto ii., Line 1. 

Dissension. 

Now join your hands, and with your hands your 

hearts, 
That no dissension hinder government. 

567 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI. , Act iv., Sc. 6. 

Dissimulation. 

Away and mock the time with fairest show ; 
False face must hide what the false heart doth 
know. 

568 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act i., Sc. 7. 

Dissolution. 

Like the baseless fabric of this vision, 
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, 
The solemn temples, the great globe itself, 
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve ; 
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, 
Leave not a rack behind. 

569 Shaks. : Tempest, Act iv., Sc. 1. 



D I C T 1 1 » X A B Y F V I » i: 1 1 C A L QUO I A TIO M B . 9 1 

Distance. 

T is distance lends enchantment to the view, 
And robes the mountain in its azure hue. 

570 Campbell: PL of Hope, Pt. 1.. Line 7. 



Sweetest melodies 
Are those that are by distance made more sweet. 

•371 Wordsworth : Personal Talk. St. 2. 

Distrust. 

The saddest thing that can befall a soul 
Is when it loses faith in God and woman. 

572 Alexander Smith ; A Life Drama, Sc. 12. 

Divinity. 

There's a divinity that shapes our ends. 
Rough-hew them how we will. 

573 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act v,. Sc. 2. 

Doctrine. 

And prove their doctrine orthodox, 
By apostolic blows and knocks. 

Butler; Hudibras. Pt. i., Canto i.. 

574 Line 205. 

Dogs. 

Ay. in the catalogue ye go for men : 

As hounds, and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels. 

curs. 
Shoughs. water-rugs, and demi-wolves. are 'clept 
All by the name of dogs. 

575 Shaks.: Macbeth, Act ill.. Sc. 1. 



92 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Dominion. 

Here we may reign secure, and in my choice 
To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell : 
Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven. 

576 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. i., Line 261. 

Doom. 

What, will the line stretch out to the crack of 

doom? 

577 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act iv., Sc. 1. 

Doubt. 

Modest doubt is call'd 
The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches 
To the bottom of the worst. 

578 Shaks. : Trail, and Cress., Act ii., Sc. 2. 

Our doubts are traitors, 
And make us lose the good we oft might win, 
By fearing to attempt. 

579 Shaks. : 31. for M., Act i., Sc. 5. 

Drama. 

The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, 
For we that live to please, must please to live. 
Dr. Johnson : Pro. On Opening Drury Lane 

580 Theatre. 

Dreams. 

I talk of dreams 
Which are the children of an idle brain, 
Begot of nothing but vain fantasy ; 
Which is as thin of substance as the air; 
And more inconstant than the wind. 

581 Shaks. : Rom. and Jul., Act i., Sc. 4. 



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Dreams in their development have breath, 
And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy- 

582 Byron: Dream, St. 1. 

Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, 
Unnatural and full of contradictions ; 
Yet others of our most romantic schemes 
Are something more than fictions. 

583 Hood : The Haunted House. 

Like glimpses of forgotten dreams. 

581 Tennyson: The Two Voices, St. cxxvii. 

Dress. 

Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet ; 
In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet. 

Lady M. TV. Montagu: A Summary of 
585 Lord Ly Helton's Advice. 

We sacrifice to dress, till household joys 

And comforts cease. Dress drains our cellar dry. 

And keeps our larder lean ; puts out our fires, 

And introduces hunger, frost, and woe, 

Where peace and hospitality might reign. 

5S6 Cowpee : Task, Bk. ii., Line 614. 

Drink — Drinking — Drunkenness. 

Oh, that men should put an enemy in 

Their mouths, to steal away their brains! that we 

Should, with joy. pleasance, revel and applause, 

Transform ourselves into beasts ! 

587 Shaks. : Othello, Act ii., Sc. 3. 

Give him strong drink until he wink, 
That's sinking in despair; 
An' liquor guid to fire his bluid, 
That 's prest wi' grief an' care, 



94 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

There let him bouse and deep carouse, 
Wi' bumpers flowing o'er, 
Till he forgets his loves or debts, 
An' minds his griefs no more. 

588 Burns : Scotch Drink. 
Dryden. 

Waller was smooth ; but Dryden taught to join 
The varying verse, the full resounding line, 
The long majestic march, and energy divine. 

589 Pope: Satire v., Line 267. 
Duelling. 

Some fiery fop, with new commission vain, 
Who sleeps on brambles till he kills his man; 
Some frolic drunkard, reeling from a feast, 
Provokes a broil, and stabs you for a jest. 

590 Dr. Johnson : London. 

Dunce. 

How much a dunce, that has been sent to roam, 
Excels a dunce, that has been kept at home. 

591 Cowper : Prog, of Error y Line 415. 

Dungeon. 

Dweller in yon dungeon dark, 
Hangman of creation, mark ! 

592 . Burns: Ode on Mrs. Oswald. 

Duty. 

Stern Daughter of the Voice of God ! 

O Duty ! if that name thou love 

Who art a light to guide, a rod 

To check the erring, and reprove ; 

Thou, who art victory and law 

When empty terrors overawe ; 

From vain temptations dost set free ; 

And calm'st the weary strife of frail humanity ! 

593 Wordsworth : Ode to Duty. 



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Eagle. 

So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, 
No more through rolling clouds to soar again, 
View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, 
And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart. 
Byron: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, 

594 Line 826. 

Ear. 

Where more is meant than meets the ear. 

595 Milton : II Penseroso, Line 120. 

Earth. 

The earth doth like a snake renew 
Her winter weeds outworn. 

596 Shelley : Hellas, Line 1060. 

Earth felt the wound ; and Nature from her seat, 
Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe 
That all was lost. 

597 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. ix., Line 782. 

Upon my burned body lie lightly, gentle earth. 
Beaumont and Fletcher : Maid's Tragedy, 

598 Act i., Sc. 2. 

Earth with her thousand voices praises God. 

599 Coleridge : Hymn in the Vale of Chamouni. 

Ease. 

Ease would recant 
Vows made in pain, as violent and void. 

600 Milton: Par. Lost, Bk. iv., Line 96. 



96 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

East. 

An hour before the worshipp'd sun 
Peeved forth the golden window of the east. 

601 Shaks. : Rom. and Jul., Act i., Sc. 1. 

Easter. 

Rise, heart ; thy Lord is risen. Sing His praise 
Without delays, 

Who takes thee by the hand, that thou likewise 
With Him niayst rise : 

That, as His death calcined thee to dust, 

His life may make thee gold, and, much more, just. 

602 Herbert : The Church. Easter. 

Eating. 

Unquiet meals make ill digestions. 

603 Shaks. : Com. of Errors, Act v., Sc. 1. 

Some hae meat and canna eat, 

And some would eat that want it ; 
But we hae meat, and we can eat, 

Sae let the Lord be thankit. 

604 Burns: Grace before Meat. 

Echo. 

Echo waits with art and care 
And will the faults of song repair. 

605 Emerson : May-Day, Line 439. 

O love, they die, in yon rich sky, 
They faint on hill or field or river : 
Our echoes roll from soul to soul, 
And grow for ever and for ever. 

606 Tennyson : The Princess, Pt. iii., Song. 



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Eclipse. 

The sun, . . . 
Tn dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds 
On half the nations, and with fear of change 
Perplexes monarch*. 
GOT Milton: Par. Lost, Bk. L, Line 597. 

Eden. 

They hand in hand, with wand'ring steps and slow, 

Through Eden took their solitary way. 

60S Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. xii., Line 645. 

Education. 

Tis education forms the common mind; 
Just as the twig is bent, the tree 's inclin'd. 

609 Pope : Moral Essays, Epis. i., Line 149. 

Eloquence. 

His tongue 
Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear 
The better reason, to perplex and dash 
Maturest counsels. 

610 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. ii., Line 113. 

Emerson. 

There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, 

every one, 
Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on. 

611 James Kussell Lowell: A Fable for Critics. 

Eminence. 

He who ascends to mountain tops shall find 

The loftiest peaks most wrapp'd in clouds and 

snow ; 
He who surpasses or subdues mankind, 
Must look down on the hate of those below. 

612 Byron: Ch. Harold, Canto iii., St. 45. 



98 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Empire. 

Hands that the rod of empire might have sway'd, 
Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre. 

613 Gray : Elegy, St. 12. 

End. 

Life 's but a means unto an end ; that end 
Beginning, mean, and end to all things, — God. 

614 Bailey : Festus, Sc. A Country Town. 

Endurance. 

? T is not now who 's stout and bold? 
But who bears hunger best, and cold? 
And he 's appro v'd the most deserving, 
Who longest can hold out at starving. 

Butler : Hudibras, Pt. iii., Canto iii., 

615 Line 353. 

England. 

England ! — model to thy inward greatness, 
Like little body with a mighty heart, — 

What mightst thou do, that honor would thee do, 
Were all thy children kind and natural ! 

616 Shaks. : Henry V., Act i., Chorus. 

Enmity. 

'T is death to me to be at enmity ; 

1 hate it, and desire all good men's love. 

617 Shaks. : Richard III., Act ii., Sc. 1. 

Ensign. 

Ay, tear her tattered ensign down ! 

Long has it waved on high, 
And many an eye has danced to see 

That banner in the sky. 

618 Oliver Wendell Holmes : Old Ironsides. 



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Enthusiasm. 

Rash enthusiasm, in good society 
Were nothing but a moral inebriety. 

619 Byron : Don Juan, Canto xiii., Line 35. 

Envy. 

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise, 
For envy is a kind of praise. 

620 Gay : Fables, Pt. i., Fable 44. 

Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue ; 

But, like a shadow, proves the substance true. 

621 Pope : E. on Criticism, Pt. ii., Line 266. 



Base envy withers at another's joy, 

And hates that excellence it cannot reach. 

622 Thomson : Seasons, Spring, Line 284. 

Epitaphs. 

Nobles and heralds, by your leave, 
Here lies what once was Matthew Prior, 
The son of Adam and of Eve : 
Can Bourbon or Nassau claim higher? 

623 Prior : Ep. Extempore. 

Here rests his head, upon the lap of earth, 
A youth to fortune and to fame unknown ; 

Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, 
And Melancholy mark'd him for her own. 

624 Gray : Elegy, Epitapn. 

Equality. 

The trickling rain doth fall 
Upon us one and all; 

LofC. 



100 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

The south wind kisses 
The saucy milkmaid's cheek, 
The nun's demure and meek, 
Nor any misses. 

625 E. C. Stedman : A Madrigal, St. 3. 

Error. 

Shall Error in the round of time 
Still father Truth ? 

626 Texxysox : Love and Duty. 

But Error, wounded, writhes with pain, 
And dies among his worshippers. 

627 William Cullex Bryant : The Battle-Field. 

Eternity. 

Beyond is all abyss, 
Eternity, whose end no eye can reach. 

628 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. xii., Line 555. 

Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful thought ! 

629 Addison : Cato, Act v., Sc. 1. 

Europe. 

Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay. 

630 Texxysox : Locksley Hall, Line 18L 

Eve. 

Adam the goodliest man of men since born 
His sons, the fairest of her daughters, Eve. 

631 Miltox : Par. Lost., Bk. iv.. Line 323. 

Evening. 

The day is done, and the darkness 

Falls from the wings of Night, 
As a feather is wafted downward 

From an eagle in his flight. 

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The sun is set ; the swallows are asleep ; 

The bats are flitting fast in the gray air; 

The slow soft toads out of damp corners creep ; 

And evening's breath, wandering here and there 

Over the quivering surface of the stream, 

Wakes not one ripple from its silent dream. 

633 Shelley: Evening. 

Evil. 

Farewell hope ! and with hope, farewell fear ! 
Farewell remorse ! all good to me is lost. 
Evil, be thou my good ; by thee at least 
Divided empire with heaven's king I hold. 

634 Miltox : Par. Lost, Bk. iv., Line 108. 

Evil springs up, and flowers, and bears no seed, 
And feeds the green earth with its swift decay, 
Leaving it richer for the growth of truth. 

635 James Eussell Lowell : Prometheus. 

Example. 

The evil that men do lives after them, 
The good is oft interred with their bones. 

636 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar, Act iii., Sc. 2. 

By his life alone, 
Gracious and sweet, the better way was shown. 

637 "Whittier : The Pennsylvania Pilgrim. 

Excess. 

To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, 

To throw a perfume on the violet, 

To smooth the ice. or add another hue 

L'nto the rainbow, or with taper-light 

To seek the beauteous eye of Heaven to garnish, 

Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. 

638 Shaks. : King John, Act iv., Sc. 2. 



102 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Exile. 

Beheld the duteous son, the sire decayed, 
The modest matron, and the blushing maid, 
Forc'd from their homes, a melancholy train, 
To traverse climes beyond the Western main. 

639 Goldsmith : Traveller, Line 407. 

Expectation. 

'T is expectation makes a blessing dear ; 

Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it were. 

640 Suckling : Against Fruition. 

Experience. 

Experience is by industry achieved, 

And perfected by the swift course of time. 

641 Shaks. : Two Gent, of V., Act i., Sc. 3. 

His head was silver'd o'er with age, 
And long experience made him sage. 

Gay, Fables, Pt. L, The Shepherd and 

642 the Philosopher. 

Extremes. 

Extremes in nature equal good produce, 
Extremes in man concur to general use. 

643 Pope : Moral Essays, Epis. iii., Line 161. 

Eyes. 

Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, 
Having some business, do entreat her eyes 
To twinkle in their spheres till they return. 

644 Shaks. : Rom. and Jul., Act ii., Sc. 2. 

True eyes 
Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise 
The sweet soul shining thro' them. 

Owen Meredith : Lucile, Pt. ii., 

645 Canto ii., St. 3. 



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There are eyes half defiant, 

Half meek and compliant ; 

Black eyes, with a wondrous, witching charm 

To bring us good or to work us harm. 

646 Phoebe Cary : Doves' Eyes, 

Soul-deep eyes of darkest night. 

647 Joaquin Miller : Californian, Pt. iv. 

Her eyes are homes of silent prayer. 

Tennyson : In Memoriam, Pt. xxxii., 

648 St. 1. 

The bright black eye, the melting blue, — 
I cannot choose between the two. 

649 Oliver Wendell Holmes : The Dilemma. 

These poor eyes, you called, I ween, 
" Sweetest eyes were ever seen." 

650 Mrs. Browning : Catarina to Camoens. 

Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again, 
And all went merry as a marriage bell. 

651 Byron : Ch. Harold, Canto iii., St. 21. 



F. 

Fabric. 

Anon out of the earth a fabric huge 
Rose, like an exhalation. 

652 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. i., Line 710. 

Face. 

Your face, my Thane, is as a book, where men 
May read strange matters. 

653 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act i., Sc. 5. 



104 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

The light upon her face 
Shines from the windows of another world. 
Saints only have such faces. 

654 Long-fellow: Michael Angela. Pt. ii.. 6. 

Can't I another's face commend. 
And to her virtues be a friend. 
But instantly your forehead lowers. 
As if her merit lessen'd yours : ? 

Moore : The Farmer, the Spaniel, and 

655 the Cat. Fable ix. 

Behind a frowning providence 
He hides a shining face. 

656 Cowper : Light Shining out of Darkness. 

Fair. 

Fair is foul, and foul is fair. 

657 Shaks.: Macbeth. Act L, Sc. 1. 

Exceeding fair she was not : and yet fan 

In that she never studied to be fairer 

Than Nature made her : beauty cost her nothing. 

Her virtues were so rare. 

658 George Chapmax : .4// Fools, Act L, Sc. 1. 

Fairies. 

This is the fairy land: spite of spites. 

"We talk with goblins, owls, and elvish sprites. 

659 Shaks. : Com. of Errors. Act ii.. Sc. 2. 

Faith. 

If faith produce no works. I see 
That faith is not a living tree. 

660 Haxxah More: Dan and Jane. 



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Whose faith has centre everywhere, 
Nor cares to fix itself to form. 

Tennyson: In Memoriam^ Pt. xxxiii., 

661 St. 1. 

T is hers to pluck the amaranthine flower 
Of faith, and round the sufferer's temples bind 
Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower, 
And do not shrink from sorrow's keenest wind. 

662 Wordsworth: Weak Is the Will of Man. 

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight ; 
His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. 

663 Pope : Essay on Man, Epis. iii., Line 303. 

Fall. 

He that is down needs fear no fall. 

Bunyan: The Author's Way of Sending 
664: forth his Second Part of the Pilgrim, Pt. ii. 

Falsity. 

As false 
As an, as water, as wind, as sandy earth ; 

As fox to lamb ; as wolf to heifer's calf ; 
Parcl to the hind, or stepdame to her son. 

665 Shaks. : Troil. and Cress., Act iii., Sc. 2. 

Fame. 

Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives, 
Live register 'd upon our brazen tombs. 

666 Shaks. : Loves L. Lost, Act i., Sc. 1. 

Fame, if not double-faced, is double-mouthed, 
And with contrary blast proclaims most deeds : 
On both his wings, one black, the other white, 
Bears greatest names in his wild aery flight. 

667 Milton: Samson Agonistes, Line 971. 



106 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

What 's fame ? a fancied life in others' breath, 
A thing beyond us, even before our death. 

668 Pope : Essay on Man, Epis. iv. 3 Line 237. 

There was a morning when I longed for fame, 
There was a noontide when I passed it by, 

There is an evening when I think not shame 
Its substance and its being to deny. 

Jean Ing-elow : The Star's Monument. 

669 St. 81. 

Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb 

The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar ? 

670 Beattie : Minstrel, Bk. i., St. 1. 

Or ravish 'd with the whistling of a name, 
See Cromwell, damn'd to everlasting fame ! 

671 Pope : Essay on Man, Epis. iv., Line 281. 

Family. 

Birds in their little nest agree ; 

And 't is a shameful sight 
When children of one family 

Fall out, and chide, and fight. 

672 Watts : Divine Songs, Song xvii. 

Famine. 

Famine is in thy cheeks. 

673 Shaks. : Rom. and Jul., Act v., Sc. 1. 

Fancy. 

Tell me, where is fancy bred ; 
Or in the heart, or in the head ? 
How begot, how nourished ? 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 107 

Reply, reply. 

It is engendered in the eyes. 
With gazing fed : and fancy dies 
In the cradle where it lies. 

674 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act iii., Sc. 2. Song. 

She 's all my fancy painted her; 
She 's lovely, she *s divine. 

675 William Mee : Alice Gray. 

Farewell. 

Farewell ! Farewell ! Through keen delights 
It strikes two hearts, this word of woe. 
Through every joy of life it smites, — 
Why, sometime they will know. 

676 Mary Clemmer : Farewell. 

Farewell ! a word that must be, and hath been : 
A sound which makes us linger ; — yet — farewell! 

677 Byron : Ch. Harold, Canto iv., St. 186. 

Fashion. 

The fashion wears out more apparel than the man. 

678 Shaks. : Much Ado, Act iii., Sc. 3. 

Fate. 

What fates impose, that men must needs abide ; 
It boots not to resist both wind and tide. 

679 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI., Act iv., Sc. 3. 

All human things are subject to decay, 

And when fate summons, monarchs must obey. 

680 Dryden : MacFlecknoe, Line 1. 

Things are where things are, and, as fate has willed. 
So shall they be fulfilled. 

681 Robert Browning: Agamemnon. 



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And binding Nature fast in fate, 
Left free the human will. 

682 Pope: The Universal Prayer, St. 3. 

For fate has wove the thread of life with pain, 
And twins ev'n from the birth are misery and man ! 

683 Pope : Odyssey, Bk. vii., Line 263. 

Father. 

It is a wise father that knows his own child. 

684 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act ii., Sc. 2. 

Father of all ! in every age, 

In every clime adored, 
By saint, by savage, and by sage, 

Jehovah, Jove, or Lord. 

685 Pope: The Universal Prayer, St. 1. 

Fault — Faults. 

Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it ? 

686 Shaks. : M. for M., Act ii., Sc. 2. 

Dare to be true : nothing can need a lie ; 

A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby. 

687 Herbert: The Church Porch. 

In vain my faults ye quote ; 
I write as others wrote 
On Sunium's hight. 

Walter Savage Landor : The Last 

688 Fruit of an Old Tree, Epigram cvi. 

Favor. 

Poor wretches, that depend 
On greatness' favor, dream as I have done ; 
Wake, and find nothing. But, alas, I swerve. 



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Many dream not to find, neither deserve, 
And yet are steep M in favors. 

689 Shaks. : Cymbeline, Act v., Sc. 4. 

Fawning. 

And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee, 
Where thrift may follow fawning. 

690 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 2. 

Fear. 

Why, what should be the fear? 
I do not set my life at a pin's fee ; 
And, for my soul, what can it do to that, 
Being a thing immortal as itself ? 

691 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act L, Sc. 1. 

Of all base passions fear is most accurs'd. 

692 Shaks. : 1 Henry VI., Act v., Sc, 2. 

Desponding fear, of feeble fancies full, 
Weak and unmanly, loosens ev'ry power. 

693 Thomson : Seasons, Spring, Line 286. 

The fear o' hell 's a hangman's whip 

To haud the wretch in order ; 
But where ye feel your honor grip, 

Let that aye be your border. 

694 Burns : Ep. to a Young Friend. 

Feasting. 

Blest be those feasts with simple plenty crown'd, 
Where all the ruddy family around 
Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail, 
Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale. 

695 Goldsmith : Traveller, Line 17. 



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Swinish gluttony 
Ne'er looks to heav'n amidst his gorgeous feast, 
But with besotted base ingratitude 
Crams, and blasphemes his feeder. 

696 Milton: Camus, Line 77& 

February. 

Come when the rains 
Have glazed the snow and clothed the trees with 

ice, 
While the slant sun of February pours 
Into the bowers a flood of light. 

697 William Cullen Bryant : A Winter Piece. 

Feeling. 

But spite of all the criticising elves, 
Those who would make us feel, must feel them- 
selves. 
69S Churchill: Eosciad, Line 961. 

Feet. 

Like snails did creep her pretty feet 

A little out, and then, 
As if they played at bo-peep, 

Did soon draw in again. 

699 Herrick : Aph. Upon Her Feet. 

Fellow. 

In all thy humors, whether grave or mellow, 
Thou 'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow, 
Hast so much wit and mirth and spleen about thee, 
There is no living with thee, nor without thee. 

700 Addison : Spectator. No. 68. 

Female. 

But who is this, what thing of sea or land, — 
Female of sex it seems. 

701 Milton: Samson Agonistes, Line 710. 



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Fickleness. 

Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, 

Fantastic, tickle, fierce, and vain ! 

Vain as the leaf upon the stream. 

And tickle as a changeful dream. 

7"_ J Scott: Lady of the Lake, Canto v., St. 10. 

Fiction. 

"When fiction rises pleasing to the eye, 
Men will believe, because they love the lie; 
But truth herself, if clouded with a frown, 
Must have some solemn proof to pass her down. 
703 Chuechill : Epis. to Hogarth, Line 291 = 

And truth severe, by fairy fiction drest. 

701 Gray: The Bard, Pt. iii., St, 3. 

Fidelity. 

Master, go on. and I will follow thee 
To the last gasp, with truth and loyalty. 

705 Shaks. : As You Like It, Act ii., Sc. 3. 

To God. thy country, and thy friend be true. 

706 Hevey Vaughax : Rides and Lessons, St. 8. 

Fields. 

Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, 
Shoulder'd his crutch, and show'cl how fields were 
won. 

707 Goldsmith: Des. Village. 

Fiend. 

Like one that on a lonesome road 

Doth walk in fear and dread. 

And having once turned round walks on, 



112 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

And turns no more his head, 
Because he knows a frightful fiend 
Doth close behind him tread. 

708 Coleridge: The Ancient Mariner, Pt. v\ 

Fighting. 

I '11 fight, till from my bones my flesh be hack'd. 

709 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act v., Sc. 3. 

He who fights and runs away, 
May live to fight another day ; 
But he who is in battle slain 
Can never rise and fight again. 

710 Goldsmith : Art of Poetry. 

Fire. 

From beds of raging fire to starve in ice 
Their soft ethereal warmth, and there to pine, 
Immovable, infix'd, and frozen round, 
Periods of time; thence hurried back to fire. 

711 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. ii., Line 592. 

Firmament. 

Now glow'd the firmament 
With living sapphires. 

712 Milton: Par. Lost, Bk. iv., Line 598. 

The spacious firmament on high, 
With all the blue ethereal sky, 
And spangled heavens, a shining frame, 
Their great Original proclaim. 

713 Addison: Ode. 
Flag. 

Flag of the free heart's hope and home ! 

By angel hands to valor given ; 

Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, 

And all thy hues were born in heaven. 

711 Joseph Rodman Drake : The American Flan, 



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The meteor flag of England 
Shall yet terrific burn, 
Till clanger's troubled night depart, 
And the star of peace return. 

715 Campbell : Mariners of England. 

Flame. 

Glory pursue, and gen'rous shame, 

Th' unconquerable mind, and freedom's holy flame. 

716 Gray : Prog, of Poesy, Pt. ii., St. 2, Line 10. 

The flame that lit the battle's wreck 
Shone round him o'er the dead. 

717 Hemans: Casablanca. 

Flattery. 

By heav'n I cannot flatter : I do defy 
The tongues of soothers; but a braver place 
In my heart's love, hath no man than yourself ; 
Nay, task me to my word ; approve me, lord. 

718 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV., Act iv., Sc. 1. 

'T is an old maxim in the schools, 
That flattery 's the food of fools ; 
Yet, now and then, your men of wit 
Will condescend to take a bit. 

719 Swift : Cadenus and Vanessa, Line 755. 

Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust, 
Or flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of death? 

720 Gray: Elegy, St. 11. 

Flea. 

So, naturalists observe, a flea 
Has smaller fleas that on him prey; 
And these have smaller still to bite 'em ; 
And so proceed ad infinitum. 

721 Sw^ift : Poetry, A Rhapsody. 



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Flesh. 

Oh, that this too too solid flesh would melt, 
Thaw and resolve itself into a dew ! 

722 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act v., Sc. 1. 

Flirtation. 

Never wedding, ever wooing, 

Still a love-lorn heart pursuing, 

Read you not the wrong you 're doing, 

In my cheek's pale hue ? 

All my life with sorrow strewing, 

Wed, or cease to woo. 

723 Campbell : Maid's Remonstrance. 

Flood. 

Darest thou, Cassius, now 
Leap in with me into this angry flood, 
And swim to yonder point ? 

724 Shaks. : Jul Ccesar, Act i., Sc. 2. 

Flowers. 

The gentle race of flowers 
Are lying in their lowly beds. 

William Cullen Bryant : Death of the 

725 Floicers. 

Flowers preach to us if we will hear. 
Chris. G. Rossetti : Consider the Lilies of the 

726 Field. 

In Eastern lands they talk in flowers, 
And they tell in a garland their loves and cares ; 
Each blossom that blooms in their garden bowers 
On its leaves a mystic language bears. 

727 J. G. Percival : Language of the Flowers. 



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Ye living flowers that skirt the eternal frost. 

728 Coleridge : Hymn in the Vale of Chamouni. 

Foe. 

Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, 
Bold I can meet, — perhaps may turn his blow! 
But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can 

send, 
Save, save, oh save me from the candid friend ! 

729 George Canning : New Morality. 

Folly. 

Fools, to talking ever prone, 
Are sure to make their follies known. 

730 Gay : Fables, Pt. i., Fable 44. 

Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, 
If folly grow romantic, I must paint it. 

731 Pope : Moral Essays, Epis. ii., Line 15. 

Where lives the man that has not tried 
How mirth can into folly glide, 
And folly into sin ! 

732 Scott: Bridal of Triermain, Canto i., St. 21. 

When lovely woman stoops to folly, 
And finds too late that men betray, 

What charm can soothe her melancholy? 
What art can wash her guilt away ? 

733 Goldsmith : The Hermit, Ch. xxiv. 

Fools. 

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. 

Byron : English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, 

734 Line 6. 



116 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Since call'd 
The Paradise of Fools, to few unknown. 

735 Milton: Par. Lost, Bk. iii., Line 495. 

And ever since the Conquest have been fools. 
Earl of Rochester : Artemisia in the Town 

736 to Chloe in the Country. 

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. 

737 Pope: E. on Criticism, Pt. iii., Line 66. 

Footprints. 

Lives of great men all remind us 

We can make our lives sublime, 
And departing, leave behind us 

Footprints on the sands of time. 

738 Longfellow : A Psalm of Life. 

Forbearance. 

The kindest and the happiest pair 
Will find occasion to forbear ; 
And something, every day they live, 
To pity, and perhaps forgive. 

739 Cowper : Mutual Forbearance. 

Force. 

Who overcomes 
By force, hath overcome but half his foe. 

740 Milton: Par. Lost, Bk. L, Line 648. 

Forest. 

Summer or winter, day or night, 

The woods are an ever-new delight; 

They give us peace, and they make us strong, 

Such wonderful balms to them belong : 

So, living or dying, I '11 take mine ease 

Under the trees, under the trees. 

741 R. H. Stoddard : Under the Trees. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 117 

This is the forest primeval. 

742 Longfellow: Evangeline, Introduction. 

Forgetfulness. 

Xot in entire forgetfulness, 
And not in utter nakedness, 
But trailing clouds of glory, do we come 
From God, who is our home. 

743 Wordsworth : Intimations of Immortality. 

God of our fathers, known of old — 

Lord of our far-flung battle line — 
Beneath whose awful hand we hold 

Dominion over palm and pine — 
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, 
Lest we forget — lest we forget. 

744 Rudyard Kipling : Recessional. 

Forgiveness. 

Good nature and good sense must ever join ; 
To err is human, to forgive divine. 

745 Pope : E. on Criticism, Pt. ii., Line 324. 

They who forgive most shall be most forgiven. 

746 Bailey: Festus, Sc. Home. 

Good, to forgive ; 
Best to forget ! 

747 Robert Browning : La Saisiaz, Prologue. 

Form. 

She was a form of life and light 
That seen, became a part of sight, 
And rose, wherever I turn'd mine eye, 
The morning-star of memory ! 

748 Byron : Giaour, Line 1127. 



118 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS, 

Fortitude. 

True fortitude is seen in great exploits 

That justice warrants, and that wisdom guides; 

All else is tow 'ring frenzy and distraction. 

719 Addison : Cato, Act ii., Sc. 1. 

Fortune. 

Will fortune never come with both hands full, 
But write her fair words still in foulest letters ? 
She either gives a stomach, and no food, — 
Such as are the poor in health ; or else a feast, 
And takes away the stomach, — such are the rich, 
That have abundance, and enjoy it not. 

750 Shaks. : 2 Henry 1 V., Act iv., Sc. 1. 

Fortune is female : from my youth her favors 
Were not withheld, the fault was mine to hope 
Her former smiles again at this late hour. 

751 Byron: Mar. Faliero, Act v., Sc. 1. 

Forever, Fortune, wilt thou prove 
An unrelenting foe to love ; 
And when we meet a mutual heart, 
Come in between and bid us part ? 

752 Thomson: Song. 

Frailty. 

Frailty, thy name is Woman ! 

753 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 2. 

I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan, 
Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death, 
And from the organ-pipe of frailty sings 
His soul and body to their lasting rest. 

754 Shaks. : King John, Act v., Sc. 7. 



DICTIoXAKY OF POBTICAX QUOTATIONS. 119 

France. 

T is better using France, than trusting France; 
Let us be baek'd with God. and with the sea-. 
Which he hath given for fence impregnable, 
And with their helps only defend ourselves; 
In them, and in ourselves, our safety lies. 

755 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI. , Act iv., Sc. 1. 

Fraternity. 

There are bonds of all sorts in this world of ours, 
Fetters of friendship and ties of flowers, 

And true-lovers' knots, I ween ; 
The girl and the boy are bound by a kiss. 
But there 's never a bond, old friend, like this, 

We have drunk from the same canteen. 

Charles G. Halpine (-Miles 

756 O'Reilly"): The Canteen. 

Freedom. 

We must be free or die. who speak the tongue 
That Shakespeare spake ; the faith and morals hold 
Which Milton held. 

Wordsworth: Sonnet. It is not to be 

757 thought of. etc. 

Oh. Freedom ! thou art not. as poets dream, 
A fair young girl, with light and delicate limbs, 
And wavy tresses gushing from the cap 
With which the Roman master crowned his slave 
When he took off the gyves. A bearded man, 
Armed to the teeth, art thou : one mailed hand 
Grasps the broad shield, and one the sword : thy 

brow. 
Glorious in beauty though it be. is scarred 
With tokens of old wars. 

William Cullen Bryant: Antiquity of 

758 Freedom. 



120 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

My angel, — his name is Freedom, — 
Choose him to be your king ; 
He shall cut pathways east and west, 
And fend you with his wing. 

759 Emerson : Boston Hymn. 

Then Freedom sternly said : " I shun 
No strife nor pang beneath the sun, 
When human rights are staked and won." 

760 Whittier : The Watchers. 

When Freedom from her mountain-height 

Unfurled her standard to the air, 
She tore the azure robe of night, 

And set the stars of glory there. 

Joseph Rodman Drake : The American 

761 Flag. 

Freeman. 

He is the freeman whom the truth makes free. 

762 Cowper : Task, Bk. v., Line 733. 

Friendship. 

I count myself in nothing else so happy, 
As in a soul rememb'ring my good friends. 

763 Shaks. : Richard U., Act ii., Sc. 3. 

The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, 
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel ; 
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment 
Of each new-hatch'd unfledged comrade. 

764 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 3. 

Oh, be my friend, and teach me to be thine ! 

765 Emerson: Forbearance. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 121 

The friendships of the world are oft 
Confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasure. 

766 Addison : Cato, Act iii., Sc. 1. 

Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspir'd. 

767 Pope: Iliad, Bk. xvi., Line 267. 

Officious, innocent, sincere, 

Of every friendless name the friend. 

Dr. Johnson : Verses on the Death of Mr. 

768 Robert Levet, St. 2. 

Small service is true service while it lasts. 

Of humblest friends, bright creature ! scorn not 

one : 
The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, 
Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun. 

769 Wordsworth : To a Child. 

Front. 

His fair large front and eye sublime declar'd 
Absolute rule. 

770 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. iv., Line 297. 

Frost. 

All the panes are hung with frost, 
Wild wizard-work of silver lace. 

771 T. B. Aldrich : Latakia. 

What miracle of weird transforming 
Is this wild work of frost and light, 
This glimpse of glory infinite ! 

772 Whittier : The Pageant, St. 8 

But, oh ! fell death's untimely frost 
That nipt my flower sae early. 

773 Burns : Highland Mary 



122 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Fruit. 

The ripest fruit first falls. 

774 Shaks. : Richard II., Act ii., Sc. 1. 

Fury. 

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, 
Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. 

775 Congreve : Mourning Bride, Act iii., Sc. 8. 

Beware the fury of a patient man. 

Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel, Pt. i., 

776 Line 1005. 

Futurity. 

The dread of something after death, 

The undiscover'd country, from whose bourn 

No traveller returns, puzzles the will ; 

And makes us rather bear those ills we have, 

Than fly to others that w T e know not of. 

777 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 1. 

O Death, O Beyond, 
Thou art sweet, thou art strange ! 

Mrs. Browning: Rhapsody of Life's 

778 Progress. 

Ah Christ, that it were possible 

For one short hour to see 

The souls we loved, that they might tell us 

What and wmere they be. 

779 Tennyson : Maud, Pt. xxvi., St. 3. 

Trust no future, howe'er pleasant ! 
Let the dead Past bury its dead ! 

780 Longfellow : Psalm of Life. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 123 

G. 

Gain. 

Remote from cities liv'd a swain, 
Unvex'd with all the cares of gain. 

Gay : Fables, Pt. i., The Shepherd and the 

781 Philosopher. 

Gale. 

So fades a summer cloud away ; 

So sinks the gale when storms are o'er. 

782 Mrs. Barbauld : Death of the Virtuous. 

Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the 
evening gale. 

783 Burns : The Cotter's Saturday Night. 

Gambling. 

Play not for gain, but sport. Who plays for more 
Than he can lose with pleasure, stakes his heart; 
Perhaps his wife's too, and whom she hath bore. 

784 Herbert : Temple, Church Porch, St. 33. 

Garden. 

A garden, sir, 
Wherein all rainbowed flowers were heaped to- 
gether. 

Charles Kingsley: Sainfs Tragedy, 

785 Actv.,Sc.l. 

God the first garden made, and the first city, Cain. 

786 Cowley: The Garden, Essay v. 

Garret. 

Born in the garret, in the kitchen bred. 

787 Byron: A Sketch. 



124 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Garrick. 

Here lies David Garrick — describe him who can, 
An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man. 
As an actor, confess'd without rival to shine; 
As a wit, if not first, in the very first line; 
Yet, with talents like these, and an excellent heart, 
The man had his failings — a dupe to his art. 
Like an ill-judging beauty, his colors he spread, 
And beplaster'd with rouge his own natural red. 
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting: 
'T was only that when he was off, he was acting. 

788 Goldsmith : Retaliation, Line 93. 

Gem. 

Full many a gem of purest ray serene 

The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear. 

789 Gray: Elegy, St. 14. 

Genius. 

Time, place, and action, may with pains be wrought, 
But genius must be born, and never can be taught. 

790 Dryden: Epis. to Congreve Line 59. 

Nor mourn the unalterable Days 
That Genius goes and Folly Stays. 

791 Emerson: In Memoriam. 

Gentleman. 

We are gentlemen, 
That neither in our hearts, nor outward eyes, 
Envy the great, nor do the low despise. 

792 Shaks. : Pericles, Act ii., Sc. 3. 

When Adam dolve, and Eve span, 
Who was then the gentleman ? 

793 Lines used by John Ball in Wat Tyler's Rebellion. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 125 

Gentleness. 

What would you have? Your gentleness shall force 
More than your force move us to gentleness. 

794 Shaks. : As You Like It, Act ii., Sc. 7. 

Ghosts. 

A vaunt! and quit my sight! Let the earth hide thee! 
Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold ; 
Thou hast no speculation in those eyes, 
Which thou dost glare with ! 

795 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act iii., Sc. 4. 

Many ghosts, and forms of fright, 
Have started from their graves to-night; 
They have driven sleep from mine eyes away. 

796 Longfellow : Christus, Golden Legend, Pt. iv. 

Some say no evil thing that walks by night, 
In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, 
Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost 
That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, 
Xo goblin, or swart fairy of the mine, 
Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity. 

797 Miltox: Com us, Line 432. 

Gifts. 

She prizes not such trifles as these are : 
The gifts she looks from me, are pack'd and lock'd 
Up in my heart; which I have given already, 
But not deliver'd. 

798 Shaks. : Wint. Tale, Act iv., Sc. 3. 

Saints themselves will sometimes be, 
Of gifts that cost them nothing, free. 

799 Butler : Hudibras, Pt. i., Canto i., Line 495. 



126 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Girdle. 

I '11 put a girdle round about the earth 
In forty minutes. 

800 Shaks. : Mid. N. Dream, Act ii., Sc. 1. 

Gloaming. 

Late, late in a gloamin, when all was still, 
When the fringe was red on the westlin hill, 
The wood was sere, the moon i' the wane, 
The reek o' the cot hung over the plain — 
Like a little wee cloud in the world its lane; 
When the ingle lowed with an eiry leme, 
Late, late in the gloamin Kilmeny came hame! 

801 James Hogg: Kilmeny. 

Gloom. 

Where glowing embers through the room 
Teach light to counterfeit a gloom. 

802 Milton : 11 Penseroso, Line 79. 

Glory. 

Glory is like a circle in the water, 

Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, 

Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to nought. 

803 Shaks. : 1 Henry VL, Act i., Sc. 2. 

His form had yet not lost 
All her original brightness, nor appear 'd 
Less than archangel ruin'd, and. th' excess 
Of glory obscur'd. 

804 Milton: Par. Lost, Bk. i., Line 591. 

Go where glory waits thee ! 

But while fame elates thee, 

Oh, still remember me ! 

805 Moore: Go Where Glory Waits Thee. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 127 

The sunshine is a glorious birth; 
But yet I know, where'er I go, 
That there hath passed away a glory from the earth. 

806 Won ds wort n : Intimations of Immortality, St. 2. 

Ye sons of France, awake to glory ! 

Hark! hark! what myriads bid you rise! 
Your children, wives, and grandsires hoary, 

Behold their tears and hear their cries ! 

807 Joseph R. De L'Isle: Marseilles Hymn. 

Glow-worm. 

The glow-worm shows the matin to be near, 
And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire. 

808 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 5. 

Gluttony. 

Swinish gluttony 
Ne'er looks to Heav'n amidst his gorgeous feast, 
But with besotted, base ingratitude 
Crams, and blasphemes his Feeder. 

809 Milton : Comus, Line 776. 

God. 

'T is heaven alone that is given away, 

'T is only God may be had for the asking. 

James Russell Lowell : The Vision of Si?- 

810 LaunfaL 

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, 
AYhose body Xature is, and God the soul. 

811 Pope: Essay on Man, Epis. i., Line 267. 

Thou art, O God, the life and light 
Of all this wondrous world we see; 
Its glow by day, its smile by night, 
Are but reflections caught from Thee : 



128 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Where'er we turn, Thy glories shine, 
And all things fair and bright are Thine. 

812 Moore: Thou Art, God. 

And they were canopied by the blue sky, 
So cloudless, clear, and purely beautiful 
That God alone was to be seen in heaven. 

813 Byrox: The Dream, St. 4. 

The conscious water saw its God and blushed. 

814 Richard Crashaw: Epigram. 

From Thee, great God, we spring, to Thee we tend, — 
Path, motive, guide, original, and end. 

815 Dr. Johnson : Motto to the Rambler, No. 7. 

Gods. 

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices 
Make instruments to plague us. 

816 Shaks. : King Lear, Act v., Sc. 3. 

Heartily know, 
When half -gods go, 
The gods arrive. 

817 Emerson: Give All to Love. 

Gold. 

Gold; worse poison to men's souls, 
Doing more murther in this loathsome world, 
Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell. 

818 Shaks. : Rom. and Jul., Act v., Sc. 1. 

O cursed lust of gold! when for thy sake 

The fool throws up his interest in both worlds; 

First starved in this, then damn'd in that to come. 

819 Blair: The Grave, Line 347. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 129 

So dear a life your arms enfold. 
Whose crying is a cry for gold. 
B20 Texxysox: The Daisy, St. 24. 

Goodness. 

May he live 
Longer than I have time to tell }iis years! 
Ever belov'd. and loving, may his rule be! 
And. when old Time shall lead him to his end, 
Goodness and he till up one monument ! 

821 Shaks.: Henry VIII. , Act ii., Sc. 1. 

Oh. sir! the good die first. 
And they whose hearts are dry as summer's dust, 
Burn to the socket. 

822 Wordsworth: Excursion^ Bk. i.. Line 5(4. 

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever: 
Do noble things, not dream them, all day long: 
And so make life, death, and that vast forever 
One grand, sweet song. 

823 Charles Kixgsley: A Farewell. 

Good Night. 

At once, good night : — 
Stand not upon the order of your going, 
But go at once. 

824 Shaks.: Macbeth. Act iii.. Sc. 4. 

Good night ! good night ! parting is such sweet 

sorrow. 
That I shall say good night, till it be morrow. 

825 Shaks. : Rom. and Jul. Act ii.. Sc. 2. 

To all. to each, a fair good night. 

And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light. 

826 Scott : Marmion. Canto vi.. L'Envoy. 



130 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Government. 

'T is government that makes them seem divine. 

827 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI., Act L, Sc. 4. 

Each petty hand 
Can steer a ship becalm'd; but he that will 
Govern and carry her to her ends, must know 
His tides, his currents, how to shift his sails; 
What she will bear in foul, what in fair weathers ; 
Where her springs are, her leaks, and how to stop 'em; 
What strands, what shelves, what rocks do threaten 
her. 

828 Ben Jons on : Catiline, Act iii., Sc. 1. 

For forms of government let fools contest, 
Whate'er is best administer'd is best. 

829 Pope : Essay on Man, Epis. iii., Line 303. 

Grace. 

When once our grace we have forgot, 
Nothing goes right. 

830 Shaks. : M. for M., Act iv., Sc. 4. 

From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, 
And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art. 

831 Pope : E. on Criticism, Pt. i., Line 152. 

Grandeur. 

Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile 
The short and simple annals of the poor. 

832 Gray : Elegy, St. 8. 

Gratitude. 

The still small voice of gratitude. 

833 Gray : Ode for Music, Chorus, V., Line 8. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 131 

I Ve heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds 
With coldness still returning ; 
Alas ! the gratitude of men 
Hath oftener left me mourning. 

834 Wordsworth : Simon Lee. 

Grave. 

One destin'd period men in common have, 
The great, the base, the coward, and the brave, 
All food alike for worms, companions in the grave. 

835 Lansdowne : On Death. 

The grave, dread thing ! 
Men shiver when thou 'rt named : Nature appall'd, 
Shakes off her wonted firmness. 

836 Blair : The Grave, Line 9. 

Mine be the breezy hill that skirts the down, 

Where a green grassy turf is all I crave, 

With here and there a violet bestrewn, 

Fast by a brook or fountain's murmuring wave ; 

And many an evening sun shine sweetly on my grave ! 

837 Beattie : The Minstrel, Bk. ii., St. 17. 

Greatness. 

I have touched the highest point of all my great- 
ness. 

838 Shaks. : Henry VIII., Act iii., Sc. 2. 

Rightly to be great, 
Is, not to stir without great argument, 
But greatly to find quarrel in a straw, 
When honor 's at the stake. 

839 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act iv., Sc. 4. 



132 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Great hearts have largest room to bless the small; 
Strong natures give the weaker home and rest. 

840 Lucy Larcom : Sonnet, The Presence. 

Greece, 

Fair Greece ! sad relic of departed worth ! 
Immortal, though no more; though fallen, great! 

841 Byron : Ch. Harold, Canto ii., St. 73. 

Such is the aspect of this shore ; 

'T is Greece, but living Greece no more! 

So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, 

We start, for soul is wanting there. 

842 Byron : Giaour, Line 90. 

The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece ! 
Where burning Sappho loved and sung. 

843 Byron : Don Juan, Canto iii., St. 86. 1. 

Greeks. 

When Greeks joined Greeks, then was the tug of war. 

844 Nathaniel Lee : Alex, the Great, Act iv.,Sc. 2. 

Grief. 

My grief lies onward and my joy behind. 

845 Shaks. : Sonnet 50. 

What 's gone, and what's past help, 
Should be past grief. 

846 Shaks. : Wint. Tale, Act iii., Sc. 2. 

What need a man forestall his date of grief, 
And run to meet what he would most avoid V 

847 Milton : Comus, Line 362. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 133 

brothers! let us leave the shame and sin 
Of taking vainly, in a plaintive mood, 
The holy name of Grief ! — holy herein, 
That, by the grief of One, came all our good. 
818 Mrs. Browning: Sonnets, Exaggeration, 

In all the silent manliness of grief. 

849 Goldsmith : Des. Village, Line 384. 

Ground. 

Where'er we tread, 't is haunted, holy ground. 

850 Byron : Ch. Harold, Canto ii., St. 88. 

Groves. 

The groves were God's first temples. 

851 William Cullen Bryant : A Forest Hymn. 

In such green palaces the first kings reign'd, 
Slept in their shades, and angels entertain'd; 
With such old counsellors they did advise, 
And by frequenting sacred groves grew wise. 

852 Waller : On St. James's Park. 

Grudge. 

If I can catch him once upon the hip, 

1 will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. 

853 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act L, Sc. 3. 

Guests. 

Unbidden guests 
Are often welcomest when they are gone. 

854 Shaks. : 1 Henry VI., Act ii., Sc. 2. 

For I who hold sage Homer's rule the best, 
Welcome the coming, speed the going guest. 

855 Pope : Satire ii., Line 159. 



134 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Guilt. 

So full of artless jealousy is guilt, 
It spills itself in fearing to be spilt. 

856 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act iv., Sc. 5. 

How guilt, once harbor 'd in the conscious breast, 
Intimidates the brave, degrades the great ! 

857 Dr. Johnson: Irene, Act iv., Sc. 8. 



H. 

Habit. 

Ill habits gather by unseen degrees, 

As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. 

Dryden: Ovid's Metamorphoses, Bk. xv., 

858 Line 155. 

Small habits well pursued betimes 
May reach the dignity of crimes. 

859 Hannah More: Floris, Pt. i., Line 85. 

Hair. 

She knows her man, and when you rant and swear, 
Can draw you to her with a single hair. 

860 Dryden: From Persius, Satire v., Line 246. 

Golden hair, like sunlight streaming 
On the marble of her shoulder. 

861 J. G. Saxe: The Lover's Vision, St. 3. 

When you see fair hair 
Be pitiful. 

862 George Eliot : Spanish Gypsy, Bk. 4. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 135 

Loose his beard, and hoary hair 

Stream'd like a meteor to the troubled air. 

B63 Gray: The Bard, Pt. i., St. 2. 

Halter. 

Xo man e'er felt the halter draw. 
With good opinion of the law. 

Jonx Trumbull: McFingal, Canto iii., 

864 Line 489. 

Hand. 

Let my hand — 
This hand, lie in your own — my own true friend ! 
Hand in hand with you. 

865 Robert Browning : Paracelsus, Sc. 5. 



'T was a hand 
White, delicate, dimpled, warm, languid, and bland. 
The hand of a woman is often, in youth. 
Somewhat rough, somewhat reel, somewhat grace- 
less in truth : 
Does its beauty refine, as its pulses grow calm,. 
Or as Sorrow has crossed the life-line in the palm ? 

Owex Meredith: Lucile. Pt. i.. Canto iii., 
866 St. 13. 

Happiness. 

And there is even a happiness 

That makes the heart afraid. 

>o7 Hood : Ode to Melancholy. 



Happiness depends, as Nature shows. 

Less on exterior things than most suppose. 

86S Cowper: Table Talk. Line 246. 



136 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

O happiness! our being's end and aim! 

Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: 

That something still which prompts the eternal 

sigh, 
For which we bear to live, or dare to die. 

869 Pope: Essay on Man, Epis. iv., Line 1. 

Harmony. 

Soft stillness and the night 
Become the touches of sweet harmony. 

870 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act v., Sc. 1. 

From harmony, from heavenly harmony, 

This universal frame began : 

From harmony to harmony 
Through all the compass of the notes it ran, 
The diapason closing full in Man. 

871 Dryden : A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, Line 1 1 . 

Harp. 

The harp that once through Tara's halls 

The soul of music shed, 
Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls 

As if that soul were fled. 

Moore : The Harp That Once Through Tara's 

872 Halls. 

Haste. 

Farewell; and let your haste commend your duty. 

873 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 2. 

Running together all about, 
The servants put each other out, 
Till the grave master had decreed, 
The more haste, ever the worst speed. 

874 Churchill: Ghost, Bk. iv., Line 1159. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 137 

Hat. 

So Britain's monarch once uncovered sat. 

While Bradshaw bullied in a broad-brimmed hat. 

B75 James Bramston: Man of 7 

Hatred. 

To vow, and swear, and superpraise my parts, 
When. I am sure, you hate me with your hearts. 

876 Shaks. : Mid. X. Dream, Act iii., Sc. 2. 

Xever can true reconcilement grow 
Where wounds of deadly hate have pierc'd so deep. 

877 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. iv.. Line 98. 

There was a laughing devil in his sneer, 
That rais'd emotions both of rage and fear ; 
And where his frown of hatred darkly fell, 
Hope withering fled, and Mercy sigh'd farewell ! 

878 Byrox: Corsair, Canto i., St. 9. 



He who surpasses or subdues mankind 
Must look down on the hate of those below. 

879 Byrox: Ch. Harold, Canto iii.. St. 45. 

Hawthorn. 

And every shepherd tells his tale 
Under the hawthorn in the dale. 

880 Miltox: L' Allegro. Line 67. 

Head. 

Oh good gray head which all men knew ! 

Texxysox; Ode on the D . he Duke of 

B81 " Wellington, St. 1 



138 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

The tall, the wise, the reverend head 
Must lie as low as ours. 

Watts : Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Bk. ii., 

882 Hymn 63. 

Health. 

Nor love, nor honor, wealth, nor power, 
Can give the heart a cheerful hour 
When health is lost. Be timely wise; 
With health all taste of pleasure flies. 

883 Gay : Fables, Pt. i., Fable 31. 

Better to hunt in fields for health unbought 
Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. 
Dryden : Epis. to John Dryden of Chesterton, 

884 Line 92. 

Heart. 

A merry heart goes all the day, 
Your sad tires in a mile-a. 

885 Shaks. : Wint. Tale, Act iv., Sc. 2. 

With every pleasing, every prudent part, 

Say, what can Chloe want ? She wants a heart. 

886 Pope : Moral Essays, Epis. ii., Line 159. 

Or from Browning some " Pomegranate/' which 

if cut deep down the middle, 
Show T s a heart within blood-tinctured, of a veined 

humanity. 

Mrs. Browning : Lady Geraldine's Court- 

887 ship, xli. 

The heart bowed down by weight of woe 
To weakest hope will cling. 

888 Alfred Bunn : Song. 



DICTIONARY OF POKTK AL QUOTATIONS. 139 

May give a useful lesson to : 
And Learning wiser grow without his books. 
Cowpeb : T u . Bk vi.. Lin 

Bur on and up, where Nature's heart 

Beats strong amid the hills. 

Richard M. Milne s : Tragedy of tin I 
s>.> * Gaube, St 2. 

Heaven. 

Heaven is above all yet: there sits a Judge 

That no king can corrupt. 

B91 ~ Shaks. : Henry VIII., Act iii.. Sc. 1. 

Heaven 
Is as the Book of God before thee set, 
Wherein to read his wondrous works. 
B92 Milton: Par. Lost. Bk. viii.. Line 66. 

Some feelings are to mortals given 

With less of earth in them than heaven. 

693 Scon : Lady of the Lake. Canto ii.. St. 22. 

Hell. 

*T is now the very witching time of night. 
When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes 

out 
Contagion to this world. 
894 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 2. 

A dungeon horrible, on all sides round. 

As one great furnace flamed: yet from those flames 

Xo light: but rather darkness visi 

Serv'd only to discover sights of woe. 

Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace 

That comes to all. but torture without end. 

S95 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. i.. Line 61. 



140 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Hell 
Grew darker at their frown. 

896 Miltox : Par. Lost Bk. ii., Line 719. 

To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, 
Who never mentions hell to ears polite. 

897 Pope : Moral Essays, Epis. iv., Line 149. 

In hope to merit heaven by making earth a hell. 

898 Byron : Ch. Harold, Canto i., St, 20. 

Hell is a city much like London — ' 
A populous and a smoky city; 
There are all sorts of people undone, 
And there is little or no fun done; 
Small justice shown, and still less pity. 

899 Shelley: Peter Bell the Third, Pt. iii. 

Heritage. 

I, the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of 
time. 

900 Texxysox : Locksley Hall Line 178. 

Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine ! 

901 Goldsmith : Traveller, Line 50. 

Heroes. 

Heroes are much the same, the point's agreed, 
From Macedonia's madman to the Swede. 

902 Pope : Essay on Man, Epis. iv., Line 219. 

Whoe'er excels in what we prize, 
Appears a hero in our eyes. 

903 Swift: Cadenus and Vanessa, Line 729. 

To the hero, when his sword 
Has won the battle for the free, 



DICTIONARY OF POETU AL QUOTATIONS. 141 

Death's voice sounds like a prophet's word; 
And in its hollow tones are heard 
The thanks of millions yet to be ! 

904 Halleck : Marco Bozzaris. 

Heroes as great have died, and yet shall tall. 

905 Pope : Iliad, Bk. xv., Line 157. 

Hills. 

The hills. 
Rock-ribbed, and ancient as the sun. 

906 William Cullex Bryant : Thanatopsis. 

I have looked on the hills of the stormy North, 
And the larch has hung his tassels forth. 

907 Hemaxs : The Voice of Spring. 

History. 

History, with all her volumes vast. 
Hath but one page. 

908 Byron : Ch. Harold, Canto iv., St. 108. 

Holiday. 

If all the year were playing holidays. 

To sport would be as tedious as to work; 

But when they seldom come, they wished-for come, 

And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents. 

909 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV.. Act L, Sc. 2. 

There were his young barbarians all at play; 
There was their Dacian mo r her : he, their sire, 
Butcher'd to make a Roman holiday ! 

910 Byron : Ch. Harold. Canto iv., St. 111. 

Holiness. 

Whoso lives the holiest life 
Is fittest far to die. 

911 Margaret J. Prestox: Ready. 



142 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Homage. 

When I am dead, no pageant train 
Shall waste their sorrows at my bier, 

Nor worthless pomp of homage vain 
Stain it with hypocritic tear. 

912 Edward Everett: Alaric the Visigoth, 

Home. 

Home is the resort 
Of love, of joy, of peace and plenty, where, 
Supporting and supported, polish'd friends 
And dear relations mingle into bliss. 

913 Thomson: Seasons, Autumn, Line 65. 

This fond attachment to the well-known place 
Whence first we started into life's long race, 
Maintains its hold w T ith such unfailing sway, 
We feel it e'en in age, and at our latest day. 

914 Cowper : Tirocinium, Line 314. 

This be the verse you grave for me : 
Here he lies where he longed to be ; 
Home is the sailor, home from sea, 
And the hunter home from the hill. 

915 Robert Louis Stevenson : Requiem. 

'Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, 
Be it ever so humble, there 's no place like home. 

916 J. Howard Payne : Home, Sweet Home. 

Type of the wise who soar but never roam, 
True to the kindred points of heaven and home. 

917 Wordsworth : To a Skylark. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 143 

Homer. 

Read Homer once, and you can read no more, 
For all books else appear so mean, so poor; 
Verse may seem prose; but still persist to read, 
And Homer will be all the books you need. 

Sheffield, Duke of Buckinghamshire : 

918 Essay on Poetry. 

Oft of one wide expanse had I been told 
That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne, 
Yet did I never breathe its pure serene 

Till I heard Ghapman speak out loud and bold. 
Keats : On first looking into Chapman's 

919 Homer. 

Seven cities warred for Homer being dead; 
Who living had no roofe to shrowd his head. 

Thomas Heywood : Hierarchie of the Blessed 

920 Angells. 

Honesty. 

An honest man he is, and hates the slime 
That sticks on filthy deeds. 

921 Shaks. : Othello, Act v., Sc. 2. 

A wit 's a feather, and a chief a rod ; 

An honest man 's the noblest work of God. 

922 Pope : Essay on Man, Epis. iv., Line 247. 

Honor. 

Too much honor : 
O, 't is a burthen, . . . 't is a burthen, 
Too heavy for a man that hopes for heaven. 

923 Shaks. : Henry VIII., Act iii., Sc. 2. 



144 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Honor travels in a strait so narrow, 

Where one but goes abreast : keep then the path. 

924 Shaks. : Troil. and Cress., Act iii., Sc. 3. 

Honor 's a fine imaginary notion, 

That draws in raw and unexperienced men 

To real mischiefs, while they hunt a shadow. 

925 Addison : Cato, Act ii., Sc. 5. 

Honor and shame from no condition rise; 
Act well your part, there all the honor lies. 

926 Pope : Essay on^Man, Epis. iv., Line 193. 

His honor rooted in dishonor stood, 

And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true. 

927 Tennyson : Idyls, Elaine, Line 884. 

There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, 
To bless the turf that wraps their clay. 

928 William Collins : Ode in 1746. 

Hood. 

A page of Hood may do a fellow good 
After a scolding from Carlyle or Ruskin. 

Oliver Wendell Holmes : 

929 How Not to Settle It 

Hope. 

True hope is swift, and flies with swallows' wings ; 
Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings. 

930 Shaks. : Richard III, Act v., Sc. 2. 

So farewell hope, and, with hope, farewell fear, 
Farewell remorse ! All good to me is lost. 

931 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. iv., Line 108. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 145 

Hope springs eternal in the human breast; 
Man never is, but always to be blest. 

932 Pope : Essay on Man, Epis. i., Line 95. 

Auspicious hope ! in thy sweet garden grow 
Wreaths for each toil, a charm for every woe. 

933 Campbell : PL of Hope, Pt. i., Line 45. 

Thus heavenly hope is all serene, 
But earthly hope, how bright soe'er, 

Still fluctuates o'er this changing scene, 
As false and fleeting as 't is fair. 

Heber : On Heavenly Hope and Earthly 

934 Hope. 

Where peace 
And rest can never dwell, hope never comes 
That comes to all. 

935 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. i., Line 65. 

" All hope abandon, ye who enter in ! " 
These words in sombre color I beheld 
Written upon the summit of a gate. 

Dante : Inferno, Longfellow's Trans., 

936 Canto iii., Line 9. 

Horn. 

Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea, 
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. 

Wordsworth : Miscellaneous Sonnets, 

937 Pt. i., xxxiii. 

Horror. 

My fell of hair 
Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir 
As life were in 't : I have supp'd full with horrors. 

938 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act v., Sc. 5. 



146 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

On horror's head horrors accumulate. 

939 Shaks. : Othello, Act iii., Sc. 3. 

Horse. 

A horse ! a horse! my kingdom for a horse ! 

940 Shaks. : Richard IIL, Act v., Sc. 4. 

Hospitality. 

My master is of churlish disposition, 
And little recks to find the way to heaven 
By doing deeds of hospitality. 

941 Shaks. : As You Like It, Act ii., Sc. 4. 

Every house was an inn, where all were welcomed 
and feasted. 

Longfellow : Evangeline, Pt. I., iv., 

942 Line 15. 

Host. 

The leader, mingling with the vulgar host, 
Is in the common mass of matter lost. 

943 Pope : Odyssey, Bk. iv., Line 397. 

Hour. 

Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or 
die. 

944 Emerson : Quatrains, Nature. 

Catch, then, oh catch the transient hour; 

Improve each moment as it flies ! 
Life 's a short summer, man a flower; 

He dies — alas ! how soon he dies ! 

945 Dr. Johnson : Winter, An Ode. 

House. 

For there 's nae luck about the house, 
There 's nae luck at a' ; 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 147 

There 's little pleasure in the house 
When our gudeman 's aw a'. 

946 William J. Mickle : Mariner's Wife. 

Humanity. 

But hearing oftentimes 
The still, sad music of humanity. 

Wordsworth : Lines composed a few miles 

947 above Tintern Abbey. 

O suffering, sad humanity ! 
O ye afflicted ones, who lie 
Steeped to the lips in misery, 
Longing, yet afraid to die, 
Patient, though sorely tried ! 

948 Longfellow: Goblet of Life. 

Humility. 

Give me the lowest place : or if for me 
That lowest place too high, make one more low 
Where I may sit and see 
My God and love Thee so. 

949 Christina G. Rossetti : The Lowest Place. 

Hunger. 

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, 
And wretches hang that jurymen may dine. 

950 Pope : R. of the Lock, Canto iii., Line 21. 

Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave. 

951 Thomson : Seasons, Winter, Line 393. 

Hunting. 

The healthy huntsman, with a cheerful horn, 
Summons the dogs and greets the dappled Morn. 
The jocund thunder wakes the enliven'd hounds, 
They rouse from sleep, and answer sounds for 
sounds. 

952 Gay : Rural Sports, Canto ii., Line 96. 



148 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Husband. 

As the husband is, the wife is; thou art mated 

with a clown, 
And the grossness of his nature will have weight 

to drag thee down. 

953 Tennyson : Lochsley Hall, St. 24. 

Ah, gentle dames ! it gars me greet 
To think how monie counsels sweet, 
How monie lengthened sage advices, 
The husband frae the wife despises. 

954 Burns : Tarn O'Shanter. 

Hypocrisy. 

This outward-sainted deputy, — 
Whose settled visage and deliberate word 
Nips youth i' the head, and follies doth emmew 
As falcon doth the fowl, — is yet a devil. 

955 Shaks. : M.for M., Act iii., Sc. 1. 

Neither man nor angel can discern 

Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks 

Invisible, except to God alone, 

By His permissive will, through Heaven and Earth. 

956 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. iii., Line 682. 

The hypocrite had left his mask, and stood 
In naked ugliness. He was a man 
Who stole the livery of the court of heaven 
To serve the devil in. 

957 Pollok : Course of Time, Pt. viii., Line 615. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 149 



Ice. 

Yon foaming flood seems motionless as ice ; 
Its dizzy turbulence eludes the eye, 
Frozen by distance. 

958 Wordsworth: Address to Kilcliurn Castle. 

Idea. 

Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, 
To teach the young idea how to shoot. 

959 Thomson: Seasons, Spring, Line 1149. 

Idleness. 

Absence of occupation is not rest, 

A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd. 

960 Cowper : Retirement, Line 623. 

Ignorance. 

Ignorance is the curse of God, 
Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. 

961 Shaks. : 2 Henry VI., Act iv., Sc. 7. 

From ignorance our comfort flows, 
The only wretched are the wise. 

962 Prior : To Hon. C. Montague. 

Where ignorance is bliss 
'T is folly to be wise. 

963 Gray: Ode on Eton College. 

Ills. 

Kings may be blest, "but Tarn was glorious, 
O'er a' the ills o' life victorious. 

964 Burns : Tarn O'Shanter. 



150 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, — 
Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. 

Dr. Johnson : Van. of Human Wishes, 

965 Line 159. 

Imagination. 

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, 
Are of imagination all compact. 

966 Shaks. : Mid. N. Dream, Act v., Sc. 1. 

Imagination is the air of mind. 

967 Bailey : Festus, Sc. Another and a Better World. 

But thou that didst appear so fair 

To fond imagination, 
Dost rival in the light of day 

Her delicate creation. 

968 Wordsworth : Yarrow Visitect. 

Immortality. 

It must be so, Plato, thou reasonest well ! — 
Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, 
This longing after immortality? 

969 Addison : Cato, Act v., Sc. 1. 

Where music dwells 
Lingering and wandering on as loth to die, 
Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof 
That they were born for immortality. 

Wordsworth : Ecclesiastical Sonnets, 

970 Ft. iii., xliii. 

Impossibility. 

And what 's impossible can't be, 
And never, never comes to pass. 

971 Colman, Jr.: Maid of the Moor. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 151 

Impudence. 

For he that has but impudence, 
To all things has a fair pretence; 
And, put among his wants but shame, 
To all the world may lay his claim. 

972 Butler: Misc. Thoughts, Line IT. 

Inconstancy. 

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more; 
Men were deceivers ever; 
One foot in sea, and one on shore; 
To one thing constant never. 

973 Shaks. : Much Ado. Act ii., Sc. 3, Song. 

There are three things a wise man will not trust — 
The wind, the sunshine of an April day, 
And woman's plighted faith. 

Southey : Madoc, Pt. ii., Caradoc and Senena, 

974 Line 51. 

Independence. 

Thy spirit, Independence, let me share; 
Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye, 
Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, 
Xor heed the storm that howls along the sky. 

975 Smollett : Ode to Independence. 

Let independence be our boast, 
Ever mindful what it cost; 
Ever grateful for the prize, 
Let its altar reach the skies! 

976 Joseph Hopkixsox : Hail, Columbia ! 

Indifference. 

What 's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba. 

977 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act ii., Sc. 2. 



152 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Let ev'ry man enjoy his whim; 
What 's he to me, or I to him ? 

978 Churchill: Ghost, Bk. iv., Line 215. 

Infancy. 

Ere sin could blight, or sorrow fade, 
Death came with friendly care; 
The opening bud to heav'n convey'd, 
And bade it blossom there. 

979 Coleridge: Epitaph on an Infant. 

Infidelity. 

If man loses all, when life is lost, 
He lives a coward, or a fool expires. 
A daring infidel (and such there are, 
From pride, example, lucre, rage, revenge, 
Or pure heroical defect of thought.) 
Of all earth's madmen, most deserves a chain. 

980 Young : Night Thoughts, Night vii., Line 199. 

Influence. 

Xo life 
Can be pure in its purpose and strong in its strife. 
And all life not be purer and stronger thereby. 
Owen Meredith : Lucile, Pt. ii., Canto vi., 

981 St. 40. 

Ladies, whose bright eyes 
Rain influence, and judge the prize. 

982 Milton: UAllegro, Line 121. 

Ingratitude. 

I hate ingratitude more in a man 
Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, 
Or any taint of vice, whose strong corruption 
Inhabits our frail blood. 

983 Shaks.: Tw. Night, Act iii., Sc. 4. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 153 

Ingratitude ! thou marble-hearted fiend, 

More hideous, when thou show'st tht j e in a child, 

Than the sea-monster ! 

984 Shaks. : King Lear, Act i., Sc. 4. 

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is 

To have a thankless child. 

965 Shaks.: King Lear, Act i., Sc. 4. 

Inhumanity. 

Man's inhumanity to man 
Makes countless thousands mourn. 

986 Burns: Man was Made to Mourn. 

Inn. 

Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, 
Where'er his stages may have been, 
May sigh to think he still has found, 
The warmest welcome at an inn. 

Shenstone: Lines on Window of Inn at 

987 Henley. 

Innocence. 

The silence often of pure innocence 
Persuades, when speaking fails. 

988 Shaks.: Wint. Tale, Act ii., Sc. 3. 

An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay. 
And glides in modest innocence away. 

989 Dr. Johnson : Van . of Human Wishes. Line 293. 

Instinct. 

Then vainly the philosopher avers 
That reason guides our deeds, and instinct theirs. 
How can we justly different causes frame, 
When the effects entirelv are the same? 



154 DICTIOXABY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Instinct and reason how can we divide? 
'Tis the fool's ignoi the pedant's pride. 

Ppior : >;"::: i :/>t V. w :\- World. Bk. i.. 

990 Line 231. 

Invention. 

Th s invention all admir'd. and each how he 
To be tlr inventor miss'd; so easy it seem'd, 
Oner fc md. which ye: unfound most would have 

thought 
Impossible ! 

991 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. vi.. Line 49S. 

Iron. 

Ay me ! what peril- do environ 

The man that meddles with cold iron! 

992 Butler : Hvdibras, Canto iii.. Line 1. 

Isle. Isles. 

Some unsuspected isle in far-off seas. 

993 Robert Browning : Pippa Passes, Pt. ii. 

The sprinkled isles. 
Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea. 

994 Robert Browning : Cleon. 

Italy. 

Italia ! Italia ! thou who hast 

The fatal ^iit of beauty, which became 

A funeral dower of present woes and past. 

On thy sweet brow is sorrow plongh'd by shame. 

And armabs graved in characters of flame. 

995 Byron : Ch. Harold. Canto iv.. St. 12, 

Italy, my Italy ! 

Queen Mary's saying serves for me 



DICTIONARY OF POKTICAX QUOTATIONS. 155 

(When fortune's malice 

J. et her Calais) : 
•• Open my heart, and you will see 
Graved inside of it -Italy.*" 
996 Robert Browning: De G ustib us, ii. 

Ivy. 

Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green. 

That ereepeth o'er ruins old! 
Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, 

In his cell so lone and cold. 
Creeping where no life is seen, 
are old plant is the ivy green. 

Dickens : Pickwick Papers, Ch. 6. 



January. 

Then came old January, wrapped well 
In many weeds to keep the cold away ; 

Yet did he quake and quiver like to quell, 
And blow his nails to warm them if he may. 
Spenser : Faerie Queene, Bk. vii., Canto vii., 

998 St. 42. 

Jealousy. 

O beware, my lord, of jealousy : 
It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock 
The meat it feeds on. 

999 Shaks. : Othello, Act iii., Sc. 3. 

Xo true love there can be without 
Its dread penalty — jealousy. 

Owen Meredith : L. .-."."-;. Pt. ii.. Canto i., 

1000 >:. 24 



156 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Nor jealousy 
Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell. 

1001 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. v., Line 449. 

Jest. 

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear 

Of him that hears it, never in the tongue 

Of him that makes it. 

1002 Shaks. : Love's L. Lost, Act v., Sc. 2. 

Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, 
Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest. 

1003 Br. Johnson : London, Line 166. 

Jewel. 

It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night 
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear. 

1004 Shaks. : Rom. and Jul., Act i., Sc. 5. 

m 

Joke. 

A college joke to cure the dumps. 

1005 Swift : Cassinus and Peter. 

Joy. 

Capacity for joy 
Admits temptation. 

Mrs. Browning: Aurora Leigli, Bk. i., 

1006 Line 703. 

Joy is the mainspring in the whole 
Of endless Nature's calm rotation. 
Joy moves the dazzling wheels that roll 
In the great Time-piece of Creation. 

1007 Schiller : Hymn to Joy. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 157 

Joys too exquisite to last, 

And yet more exquisite when past. 

1008 James Montgomery : The Little Cloud. 

Judgment. 

A Daniel come to judgment ! yea. a Daniel! 

1009 Selaks. : M. of Venice, Act iv., Sc. 1. 

judgment ! thou art fled to brutish beasts, 
And men have lost their reason. 

1010 Shaks. : Jul. Caesar, Act iii., Sc. 2. 

July. 

Then came hot July, boiling like to fire, 
That all his garments he had cast away. 

Spenser : Faerie Queene. Bk. vii., Canto vii., 

1011 St. 36. 

June. 

And what is so rare as a clay in June ? 
Then, if ever, come perfect days ; 
Then heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, 
And over it softly her warm ear lays. 

James Russell Lowell : Vision of Sir 

1012 Launfal. 

Juries. 

The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, 
May. in the sworn twelve, have a thief or two 
Guiltier than him they try. 

1013 Shaks. : " M. for M., Act ii., Sc. 1. 

Do not your juries give their verdict 
As if they felt the cause, not heard it? 
And as they please make matter of fact 
Run all on one side as they 're packt. 

Butler : Hudibras, Ft. ii.. Canto ii., 

1014 Line 365. 



158 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Justice. 

And then, the justice ; 
In fair round belly, with good capon lin'd, 
With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut, 
Full of wise saws and modern instances, 
And so he plays his part. 

1015 Shaks. : As You Like It, Act ii., Sc. 7. 

The gods 
Grow angry with your patience : 't is their care, 
And must be yours, that guilty men escape not : 
As crimes do grow, justice should rouse itself. 

1016 Ben Jonson : Catiline, Act iii., Sc. 4. 

Man is unjust, but God is just ; and finally justice 
Triumphs. 

1017 Longfellow : Evangeline, Pt. I., iii., Line 34. 



Keys. 

Two massy keys he bore, of metals twain 
(The golden opes, the iron shuts amain) . 

1018 Milton : Lycidas, Line 109. 

Kin. 

A little more than kin, and less than kind. 

1019 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 2. 

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. 

1020 Shaks. : Troil. and Cress., Act iii., Sc. 3. 

Kindness. 

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, 
Shall win my love. 

1021 Shaks. : Tarn, of the S., Act iv., Sc. 2. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 169 

That best portion of a good man's life, — 
His little, nameless, unrememJbered acts 
Of kindness and of love. 

WORDSWORTH : Lines composed a few miles 

1022 above Tintern Abbey. 

Kings. 

What have kings that privates have not too, 
Save ceremony'.' 

1023 Shaks. : Henry Y., Act iv., Sc. 1. 

Kings are like stars. — they rise and set, they have 
The worship of the world, but no repose. 

1024 Shelley: Hellas, Line 195. 

Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand 
Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold. 

1025 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. ii., Line 1. 

Kissing. 

Then kiss me hard, 
A- if he pluck'd up kisses by the roots, 
That grew upon my lips. 

1026 Shaks. : OtheUo, Act iii., Sc. 3. 

Teach not thy lip such scorn ; for it was made 
For kissing, lady, not for such contempt. 

1027 Shaks. : Richard III.. Act i., Sc. 2. 

When my lips meet thine 
Thy very soul is wedded unto mine. 

H. H. Boyesen: Thy Gracious Face I 

1028 Greet with Glad Surprise. 



160 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Her mouth's culled sweetness by thy kisses shed 
On cheeks and neck and eyelids, and so led 
Back to her mouth which answers there for all. 
Dante Gabriel Rossetti : Love-Sweetness, 

1029 Sonnet xiii. 

I rest content, I kiss your eyes, 
I kiss your hair, in my delight : 
I kiss my hand, and say, Good night. 

1030 Joaquin Miller : Isles of the Amazons, Pt. v. 

One kiss — and then another — and another — 
Till 't is too late to go — and so return . 
Charles Kingsley: Saint's Tragedy, Act ii., 

1031 Sc. 10. 

Dear as remember'd kisses after death, 
And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd 
On lips that are for others. 

1032 Tennyson : The Princess, Pt. iv., Line 36. 

Knavery. 

There 's ne'er a villain dwelling in all Denmark 
But he 's an arrant knave. 

1033 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 5. 

Whip me such honest knaves. 

1034 Shaks. : Othello, Act i., Sc. 1. 

Knell. 

By fairy hands their knell is rung; 
By forms unseen their dirge is sung. 

1035 William Collins : Lines in 1746. 

Ne'er sigh'd at the sound of a knell, 
Or smil'd when a Sabbath appear'd. 

Cowper : Verses supposed to be written by 

1036 Alexander Selkirk. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 1G1 

Knowledge. 

Knowledge is as food, and needs no less 
Her temp'rance over appetite, to know 
In measure what the mind may well contain ; 
Oppresses else with surfeit, and soon turns 
Wisdom to folly. 

1037 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. vii., Line 126. 

All our knowledge is, ourselves to know. 

1038 Pope : Essay on Man, Epis. iv., Line 397. 

I know — is all the mourner saith, 
Knowledge by suffering entereth ; 
And Life is perfected by Death ! 

1039 Mrs. Browning : Vision of Poets, St. 330. 

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. 

1010 Tennyson: Locksley Hall, Line 141. 

But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page, 
Rich with the spoils of time, did ne'er unroll. 

1041 Gray: Elegy, St. 13. 

Oh, be wiser thou ! 
Instructed that true knowledge leads to love. 

Wordsworth : Lines left upon a Seat in 

1042 a Yew-tree. 



Labor. 

I have seen a swan 
With bootless labor swim against the tide, 
And spend her strength with over-matching waves. 
1013 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI., Act i., Sc. 4. 



162 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Labor, you know, is Prayer. 

1011 Bayard Taylor : Improvisations, St. 11. 

Taste the joy 
That springs from labor. 

1015 Longfellow : Masque of Pandora, Pt. vi. 

To fall'n humanity our Father said, 

That food and bliss should not be found unsought ; 

That man should labor for his daily bread ; 

But not that man should toil and sweat for nought. 

1016 Ebenezer Elliott : Corn Law Hymns. 

To labor is the lot of man below ; 

And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe. 

1017 Pope : Iliad, Bk. x., Line 78. 

Ladies. 

Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 

'T is to their changes half their charms we owe. 

1018 Pope : Moral Essays, Epis. ii., Line 41. 

Lake. 

On thy fair bosom, silver lake, 

The wild swan spreads his snowy sail, 

And round his breast the ripples break 
As down lie bears before the gale. 

1019 James G. Perceval : To Seneca Lake. 

Land. 

Breathes there the man with soul so dead 
Who never to himself hath said 
This is my own, my native land ! 

Scott: Lay of the Last Minstrel, Canto vi., 
1050 St. 1. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 163 

O Caledonia! stern and wild, 

.Meet nurse for a poetic child ! 

Land of brown heath and shaggy wood ; 

Land of the mountain and the flood ! 

Scott: Lag of the Last Minstrel, Canto vi., 

1051 St. 2. 

Landscape. 

The lowering element 
Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape. 

1052 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. ii., Line 490. 

Ever charming, ever new, 

When will the landscape tire the view ? 

1053 John Dyer : Grongar Hill, Line 102. 

Language. 

Fit language there is none 
For the heart's deepest things. 

James Russell Lowell: Legend of Brittany, 

1054 Pt. i., St. 28. 

Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, 
One wdio dwelleth by the castled Rhine, 

When he called the flowers, so blue and golden, 
Stars, that in earth's firmament do shine. 

1055 Longfellow : Flowers. 

Lark. 

Now hear the lark, 
The herald of the morn; . . . whose notes do beat 
The vaulty heavens, so high above our heads, . . . 
Some say the lark makes sweet division. 

1056 Shaks. : Rom. and Jul., Act iii., Sc. 5. 

And now the herald lark 
Left his ground-nest, high tow'ring to descry 
The morn's approach, and greet her with his song. 

1057 Milton : Par. Regained, Bk. ii., Line 279. 



164 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Lass. 

A penniless lass wi' a lang pedigree. 

1058 Lady Nairne : The Laird o' Cockpen. 

Latin. 

That soft bastard Latin, 
Which melts like kisses from a female month. 

1059 Byron ; Beppo, St. M. 

Laughter. 

Laughter, holding both his sides. 

1060 Milton: L' Allegro, Line 32. 

Vulcan with awkward grace his office plies, 
And unextinguished laughter shakes the skies. 

1061 Pope : Iliad, Bk. i., Line 770. 

Law. 

In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, 
But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, 
Obscures the show of evil ? 

1062 Shaks.: M. of Venice, Act iii., Sc. 2. 

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law. 

1063 Goldsmith: Traveller, Line 386. 

And sovereign law, that state's collected will. 

O'er thrones and globes elate, 
Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. 
1061 Sir William Jones : Ode in Im. of Alcceus. 

Leaf — Leaves. 

My way of life 
Is fall'n into the sere, the yellow leaf. 
1065 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act v., Sc. 3. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 165 

Call for the robin-redbreast and the wren, 
Since o'er shady groves they hover, 
And with leaves and flowers do cover 
The friendless bodies of nnbnried men. 

John Webstek : The White Devil, Act v., 

1066 Sc. 2. 

Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, — 
Now green in youth, now withering on the ground. 

1067 Pope : Iliad, Bk. vi., Line 181. 

Learning. 

u The thrice three Muses mourning for the death 
Of learning, late deceas'd in beggary,''' — 
That is some satire, keen and critical. 

1068 Shaks. : Mid. X. Dream, Act v., Sc. 1. 

Learning unrefm'd, 
That oft enlightens to corrupt the mind. 

1069 Falconer : Shipwreck, Canto i., Line 166. 

Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote. 
And think they grow immortal as they quote. 

1070 Young: Love of Fame, Satire i., Line 89. 

Lending. 

Loan oft loses both itself and friend. 

1071 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 3. 

If thou wilt lend this money, lend it not 

As to thy friends: (for when did friendship take 

A breed of barren metal of his friend ?) 

But lend it rather to thine enemy : 

Who, if he break, thou mayst with better face 

Exact the penalties. 

1072 Shaks. : 31. of Venice, Act i., Sc. 3. 



166 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Letters. 

My letters ! all dead paper, mute and white ! 
And yet they seem alive, and quivering 
Against my tremulous hands which loose the string 
And let them drop down on my knee to-night. 
Mrs. Browning: Sonnets Jr. Portuguese. 

1073 Sonnet xxviii. 

Kind messages, that pass from land to land ; 
Kind letters, that betray the heart's deep history, 
In which we feel the pressure of a hand, — 
One touch of fire, — and all the rest is mystery ! 
Longfellow : Dedication to Seaside and 

1074 Fireside, St. 5. 

You have the letters Cadmus gave, — 
Think ye he meant them for a slave ? 

1075 Byron: Don Juan, Canto iii., St. 86. 10. 

Liberty. 

I must have liberty 
Withal, as large a charter as the wind, 
To blow on whom I please. 

1076 Shaks. : As You Like It, Act ii., Sc. 7. 

In liberty's defence, my noble task, 
Of which all Europe rings from side to side ; 
This thought might lead me through the world's 

vain mask, 
Content, though blind — had I no better guide. 

1077 Milton: Sonnet xxii., To Cyriack Skinner. 

When liberty is gone, 
Life grows insipid and has lost its relish. 

1078 Addison: Cato, Act ii., Sc. 3. 



DICTIONARY OF POETH AL QUOTATIONS. 167 

Liberty, like day. 

Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from Heaven 
Fires all the faculties with glorious joy. 

Cowper : Task, Bk. v., Lin- 
Liberty \s in every I 

Let us do or die. 
1 B Burns: Bo n n ockb u rn . 

The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty. 

1081 Milton: L' Allegro, Line 36. 

Lies. 

You told a lie : an odious, damned lie : 
L'pon my soul, a lie : a wicked lie. 

1082 Shaks. : Othello, Act v.. Sc. 2. 

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: 

A fault which need? it most, grows two thereby. 

1083 Herbert: Temple, Church Porch. St. 13. 

Life. 

Life *s 1 :ing shadow: a poor player. 

That struts and frets bis boui upon the stage. 

And then is heai 1 : m : -- : :: is a tale 
Told by an idiot, full of sound and iwrr. 
Signifying nothing. 

1084 Shaks.: Macbeth, Act v.. Sc. 5. 

Xor love thy life, nc h - at -■::,: thou livest, 
Live well: how long or $hoi . [ ?rmit to Heavn. 

1085 Milton: Par. Lost, Bk. xi.. Line 553. 

Must we count 
Life a cur-- and not a blessing, summed-up in its 

whole amount. 
Help and hindrance, joy and sorrow? 

1086 Robert Browning : La Saisiaz. Line 20b. 



168 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Between two worlds, life hovers like a star 
'Twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge. 
1087 Byron: Bon Juan. Canto xv„ St. 99. 

Our life is scarce the twinkle of a staT 

In God's eternal day. 

10S8 Bayard Taylor: Autumnal Ve& 

Life is the gift of God. and is divine. 

Longfellow: T. ■- W ride fan, 

1089 Emma and E gin) 

What is life? A thawing icel 

On a sea with sunny shore : 
Gay we sail : it melts beneath us: 

We are sunk and seen no more. 

1090 Carlyle : Cut Bono. 

Life 's a vast sea 
That does its mighty errand without fail. 
Panting in unchanged strength though waves are 
changing. 

1091 George Eliot: Sj psy, Bk. iii. 

Life is not to be bought with heaps of gold : 
Not all Apollo's Pythian treasures hold. 
Or Troy once held, in peace and pride of sway. 
Can bribe the poor possession of a day. 

1092 Pope : Iliad, Bk. ix.. Line 524. 

So careful of the type she seems. 
So careless of the single life. 

1093 Texxysox : In Memoriam, lv.. St. 2. 

Light. 

Hail, holy Light! offspring of Heaven first-born ! 
Or of the Eternal coeternal beam. 



I 

- light, 
-: but in unapr light 

then in tl. 
_ _ - —nee incr- 

Mil: I . Bk. iii., L 

stray 

_ . . ai heaven. 

I ' Busks: ITk P 

The light that never was ;r land; 

The consecration, and the Poet's beam. 

:.ds worth : Suggested by a Pictur 
1 ." i Castle i . : St. 4 

Light, light, and light ! to break and melt hi 
sunder 

All : id chains that in one bondage bind 

Eyes, ha La - rits : rged by fear and wonder 

And sleek fierce fraud with hidden knife behind. 
1 " Swinburne: Eve vfRa St. 1( 

8 :: is a shadow, short as any dream; 

:he lightning in the collied night. 
1 .:"■!- Shake M N I Act ; Sc. 1. 

Lilies. 

tike the lily, 

That once was mistress of the field and z ; . risfc 
I 11 hang my head and perish. 

:.:-:■ Shaks Hi '■':::. Act m . Sc : 

In twisted raids ::' lilies knitting 

The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair. 

LI Milton • . L -_ . . t : '. 



170 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Lincoln, Abraham. 

This man, whose homely face you look upon, 
Was one of Nature's masterful, great men ; 
Born with strong arms, that unfought battles won ; 
Direct of speech, and cunning with the pen. 
Chosen for large designs, he had the art 
Of winning with his humor, and he went 
Straight to his mark, which was the human heart ; 
Wise, too, for what he could not break he bent. 
Upon his back a more than Atlas-load, — 
The burden of the Commonwealth, — was laid ; 
He stooped, and rose up to it, though the road 
Shot suddenly downwards, not a whit dismayed. 
Hold, warriors, councillors, kings ! All now give 

place 
To this dear benefactor of the Race. 

1101 R. H. Stoddard : Abraham Lincoln. 

Line. 

Marlowe's mighty line. 

Ben Jonson : To the Memory of 

1102 Shakespeare. 

Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the 
lofty line. 

1103 Scott : Marmion, Introduction to Canto i. 

Lion. 

The lion, dying, thrusteth forth his paw, 

And wounds the earth, if nothing else, with rage 

To be o'erpowered. 

1104 Shaks. : Richard II., Act v., Sc. 1. 

Lips. 

Her lips are roses over-washed with dew, 
Or like the purple of Narcissus' flower ; 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 171 

No frost their fair, no wind doth waste their power, 
But by her breath her beauties do renew. 

Robert Greene : From Menaphon. 

1105 Menaphon s Eel. 

Little. 

Contented wi' little, and cantie wi' mair. 

1106 Burns : Contented wV Little. 

Man wants but little here below, 
Nor wants that little long. 

1107 Goldsmith : The Hermit, Ch. viii., St. 8. 

Locks. 

Thou canst not say I did it ; never shake 
Thy gory locks at me. 

1108 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act iii., Sc. 4. 

John Anderson my jo, John, 

When we were first acqnent, 
Your locks were like the raven, 

Your bonny brow was brent. 

1109 Burns : John Anderson. 

Logic. 

He was in logic a great critic, 

Profoundly skill'd in analytic ; 

He could distinguish and divide 

A hair 'twixt south and south-west side. 

Butler : Hudibras, Pt. i., Canto i., 

1110 Line 65. 

London. 

London ! the needy villain's general home, 
The common-sewer of Paris and of Rome ! 
With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, 
Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state. 

1111 Dr. Johnson : London, Line 83. 



172 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Longings. 

I have 
Immortal longings in me. 

1112 Shaks. : Ant. and Cleo., Act v., Sc. 2. 

Looks. 

My only books 
Were woman's looks, — 
And folly 's all they 've taught me. 

1113 Moore : The Time I've Lost in Wooing. 

Where village statesmen talk'd with looks pro- 
found, 
And news much older than their ale went round. 

1114 Goldsmith : Des. Village, Line 223. 

Lord. 

Lord of himself, — that heritage of woe ! 

1115 Byron: Lara, Canto L, St. 2. 

Lord of himself, though not of lands ; 
And having nothing, yet hath all. 

1116 Wotton : Character of a Happy Life. 

Loss. 

That loss is common would not make 
My own less bitter — rather more ; 
Too common ! Never morning wore 

To evening but some heart did break. 

Tennyson : In Memoriam, Pt. vi., 

1117 St. 2. 

Love. 

O, how this spring of love resembleth 
The uncertain glory of an April day ; 
Which now shows all the beauty of the sun, 
And by and by a cloud takes all away. 

1118 Shaks. : Two Gent, of V., Act i., Sc. 3. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 173 

Love is a spirit all compact of fire ; 

Not gross to sink, but light, and will aspire. 

1119 Shaks. : Venus and A., Line 149. 

Such is the power of that sweet passion, 
That it all sordid baseness doth expel, 
And the refined mind doth newly fashion 
Unto a fairer form, which now doth dwell 
In his high thought, that would itself excel ; 
Which he, beholding still with constant sight, 
Admires the mirror of so heavenly light. 

1120 Spenser : Hymn in Honor of Love. 

How could I tell I should love thee to-day, 

Whom that day I held not dear ? 
How could I know I should love thee away 

When I did not love thee anear? 

1121 Jean Ingelow : Supper at the Mill. Song. 

Instruct me now what love will do ; 

'T will make a tong'ueless man to woo. 

Inform me next what love will do ; 

'T will strangely make a one of two. 

Teach me besides what love will do ; 

'T will quickly mar and make ye too. 

Tell me, now last, what love will do ; 

'T will hurt and heal a heart pierc'd through. 

1122 Sir John Suckling: Aph, of Love. 

Love is the only good in the world. 
Henceforth be loved as heart can love, 
Or brain devise, or hand approve. 

Robert Browning: Flight of the Duchess, 

1123 Pt. xv. 

Mutual love brings mutual delight — 

Brings beauty, life ; for love is life, hate, death. 

1124 R. H. Dana : The Dying Raven. 



174 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Let those love now, who never loved before, 
Let those who always loved, now love the more. 

1125 Parnell : Trans, of Pervigilium Veneris. 

Love, well thou know'st, no partnership allows : 
Cupid averse rejects divided vows. 

1126 Prior : Henry and Emma, Line 590. 

And love, life's fine centre, includes heart and 
mind. 

Owen Meredith : Lucile, Pt. ii., 

1127 Canto i., St. 17. 

I hold it true, whate'er befall, 

I feel it when I sorrow most ; 

'T is better to have loved and lost, 
Than never to have loved at all. 

1128 Tennyson : In Memoriam, Pt. xxvii., St. 4. 

Had we never loved so kindly, 
Had we never loved so blindly, 
Never met, or never parted, 
We had ne'er been broken-hearted. 

1129 Burns : Song, Ae Fond Kiss. 

Love in a hut, with water and a crust, 

Is — Love, forgive us ! cinders, ashes, dust. 

1130 Keats : Lamia, Pt. ii., Line 1. 

Why did she love him? Curious fool ! be still; 
Is human love the growth of human will? 

1131 Byron : Lara, Canto ii., St. 22. 

There is no pleasure like the pain 
Of being loved, and loving. 

1132 Praed: Legend of the Haunted Tree. 

Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 
'T is woman's whole existence. 

1133 Byron: Don Juan, Canto i., St. 194. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 175 

In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed ; 
In war, tie mounts the warrior's steed ; 
In halls, in gay attire is seen ; 
In hamlets, dances on the green ; 
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, 
And men below, and saints above ; 
For love is heaven and heaven is love. 

Scott : Lay of the Last Minstrel, Canto iii., 

1134 St. 2. 

True love is at home on a carpet, 

And mightily likes his ease, — 

And true love has an eye for a dinner, 

And starves beneath shady trees. 

His wing is the fan of a lady, 

His foot 's an invisible thing, 

And his arrow is tipp'd with a jewel, 

And shot from a silver string. 

1135 Willis : Love in a Cottage. 

What is love ? 't is nature's treasure, 
'T is the storehouse of her joys ; 
'T is the highest heaven of pleasure, 
'T is a bliss which never cloys. 

Thomas Chatterton : The Revenge, Act i., 

1136 Sc. 2. 

Luxury. 

O Luxury ! thou curs'd by heaven's decree, 
How ill-exchang'd are things like these for thee ! 
How do thy potions, with insidious joy, 
Diffuse their pleasures only to destroy ! 

1137 Goldsmith : Des. Village, Line 395. 

Blest hour ! it was a.luxury — to be ! 

Coleridge : Reflections on Having Left a 

1138 Place of Retirement. 



176 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 



M. 

Madness. 

I am not mad ; — I would to heaven I were ! 
For then, 't is like I should forget myself ; 
O, if I could, what grief should I forget ! 

1139 Shaks. : King John, Act iii., Sc. 4. 

Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go. 

1140 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 1. 

And moody madness laughing wild 
Amid severest woe. 

1141 Gray: On a Distant Prospect of Eton College. 

Man. 

O, what may man within him hide*, 
Though angel on the outward side ! 

1142 Shaks. : M.for M., Act iii., Sc. 2. 

He was a man, take him for all in all, 
I shall not look upon his like again. 

1143 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 2. 

His life was gentle ; and the elements 

So mix'd in him, that Nature might stand up, 

And say to all the world, " This was a man ! " 

1144 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar, Act v., Sc. 5. 

Man is one world, and hath 
Another to attend him. 

1145 Herbert : The Temple. Man. 

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, 
The proper study of mankind is Man. 

1146 Pope: Essay on Man, Epis. ii., Line 1. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 177 

What tho' on hamely fare we dine, 
Wear hoddin gray, and a' that? 
Gie fools their silks and knaves their wine, 
A man 's a man for a' that ! 

1147 Burns : For ci* That and a' That. 

Man is a summer's day ; whose youth and fire 
Cool to a glorious evening, and expire. 

1148 Henry Vaughan: Rules and Lessons. 

Beyond the poet's sweet dream lives 
The eternal epic of the man. 

1149 Whittier : The Grave by the Lake, St. 34. 

What is man ? A foolish baby ; 
Vainly strives, and fights, and frets : 
Demanding all, deserving nothing, 
One small grave is all he gets. 

1150 Carlyle : Cut Bono. 

Manners. 

Fit for the mountains and the barb'rous caves, 
Where manners ne'er were preach'd. 

1151 Shaks. : Tic. Night, Act iv., Sc. 1. 

Manners with fortunes, humors turn with climes, 
Tenets with books, and principles with times. 

1152 Pope : Moral Essays, Epis. i., Line 172. 

Marble. 

And sleep in dull cold marble. 

1153 Shaks. : Henry VIII., Act iii., Sc. 2. 

All your better deeds 
Shall be in water writ, but this in marble. 

Beaumont and Fletcher : Philaster, 

1154 Act v., Sc. 3. 



178 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

March. 

The stormy March is come at last, 

With wind, and clouds, and changing skies ; 

I hear the rushing of the blast. 

That through the snowy valleys flies. 

1155 William Cullen Bryant : March. 

Ah, March ! we know thou art 
Kind-hearted, spite of ugly looks and threats. 
And, out of sight, art nursing April's violets ! 

1156 Helen Hunt : March. 

Marriage. 

The ancient saying is no heresy ; — 
Hanging and wiving goes by destiny. 

1157 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act ii., Sc. 9. 

Marriage is a matter of more worth 
Than to be dealt in by attorneyship. 

1158 Shaks. : 1 Henry VI., Act v., Sc. 5. 

The joys of marriage are the heaven on earth. 
Life's paradise, great princess, the soul's quiet, 
Sinews of concord, earthly immortality, 
Eternity of pleasures. 

1159 Ford : Broken Heart, Act ii., Sc. 2. 

Hail, wedded love ! mysterious law, true source 
Of human offspring. 

1160 Milton: Par. Lost, Bk. iv., Line 750. 

Marriage is the life-long miracle, 
The self -begetting wonder, daily fresh. 

Charles Kingsley: Saint's Tragedy, 

1161 Act ii., Sc. 9. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 179 

Martyrs. 

Life has its martyrs, as brave, as strong, and as 

faithful 
E'en as the martyrs of death. 

1162 H. H. Boyesen : Calpurnia, Ft. iv. 

A pale martyr in his shirt of fire. 

1163 Alexander Smith: .4 Life Drama, Sc. 2. 

Masters. 

We cannot all be masters, nor all masters 

Cannot be truly followed. 

1161 Shaks. : Othello, Act i., Sc. 1. 

Men at some time are masters of their fates : 
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, 
But in ourselves, that we are underlings. 

1165 Shaks. : Jul. Caesar, Act i., Sc. 2. 

Matter. 

"When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter," 
And proved it. — 't was no matter what he said. 

1166 Byron: Don Juan, Canto xi., St. 1. 

May. 

The voice of one who goes before, to make 
The paths of June more beautiful, is thine, 
Sweet May ! 

1167 Helen Hunt: May. 

The new-born May. 
As cradled yet in April's lap she lay. 
Born in yon blaze of orient sky, 
Sweet May ! thy radiant form unfold, 
Unclose thy blue voluptuous eye, 
And wave thy shadowy locks of gold. 

Erasmus Darwin: L. of the Plants. 

1168 Canto ii.. Line 307. 



180 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

jNTow the bright morning-star, Day's harbinger, 
Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her 
The flowery May, who, from her green lap, throws 
The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. 

1169 Milton : Song on May Morning. 

Meeting. 

It gives me wonder, great as my content, 
To see you here before me. 

1170 Shaks. : Othello, Act ii., Sc. 1. 

Each hour until we meet is as a bird 
That wings from far his gradual way along 
The rustling covert of my soul, — his song 
Still loudlier trilled through leaves more deeply 

stirr'd : 
But at the hour of meeting, a clear word 
Is every note he sings, in Love's own tongue. 
Dante Gabriel Rossetti : Winged Hours, 

1171 Sonnet xv. 

Melancholy. 

There 's such a charm in melancholy. 

1172 Eogers: To . 

These pleasures, Melancholy, give ; 
And I with thee will choose to live. 

1173 Milton : II Penseroso, Line 175. 

Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, 
And Melancholy mark'd him for her own. 

1174 Gray : Elegy, The Epitaph. 

Melodies. 

And feeling hearts, touch them but rightly, pour 
A thousand melodies unheard before ! 

1175 Rogers : Human Life. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 181 

Memory. 

Remember thee? 
Yea, from the table of my memory 
I '11 wipe away all trivial fond records, 
All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, 
That youth and observation copied there. 

1176 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 5. 

The eyes of memory will not sleep, 

Its ears are open still, 
And vigils with the past they keep 

Against my feeble will. 

1177 Whittier : Knight of St. John. 

Tho' lost to sight, to mem'ry dear 
Thou ever wilt remain. 

1178 George Linley : Song. 

Men. 

Men are but children of a larger growth. 

1179 Dryden : All for Love, Act iv., Sc. 1. 

Mercy. 

The quality of mercy is not strain 'd; 
It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven 
Upon the place beneath : it is twice bless'd; 
It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 
'T is mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes 
The throned monarch better than his crown. 

1180 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act iv., Sc. 1. 

Who will not mercie unto others show, 
How can he mercy ever hope to have ? 

Spenser : Faerie Queene, Bk. v., Canto ii., 

1181 St. 42. 



182 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Merit. 

Be thou the first true merit to befriend ; 

His praise is lost, who stays till all commend. 

1182 Pope: E. on Criticism, Pt. ii., Line 274. 

Midnight. 

The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve : — 
Lovers to bed ; ? t is almost fairy time. 

1183 Shaks. : Mid. N. Dream, Act v., Sc. 1. 

Midnight brought on the dusky hour 
Friendliest to sleep and silence. 

1184 Milton: Par. Lost, Bk. v., Line 667. 

'T is midnight now. The bent and broken moon, 
Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles, 
Hangs silent on the purple walls of heaven. 

1185 Joaquin Miller: Ina, Sc. 2. 

Milton. 

That mighty orb of song, 
The divine Miltom 

1186 Wordsworth : Excursion, Bk. i. 

Mind. 

The mind is its own place, and in itself 

Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n. 

1187 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. i., Line 254. 

Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts. 

1188 Robert Browning: Paracelsus, Sc. 3. 

Though man a thinking being is denned, 
Few use the grand prerogative of mind. 

Jane Taylor : Essays in Rhyme, Essay i., 

1189 St. 45. 



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My mind to me a kingdom is; 
Such present joys therein I find, 

That it excels all other bliss 

That earth affords or grows by kind. 

1190 Edward Dyer : Ms. Raid., So, p. 17. 

Mirth. 

More merry tears 
The passion of loud laughter never shed. 

1191 Shaks. : Mid. N. Dream, Act v., Sc. 1. 

Come, thou Goddess fair and free, 
In heav'n yclept Euphrosyne, 
And by men, heart-easing Mirth. 

1192 * Milton: L'AUegro, Line 11. 

As Tammie glow'red, amazed and curious, 
The mirth and fun grew fast and furious. 

1193 Burns : Tarn o' Shanter. 

Mischief. 

O, mischief ! thou art swift 
To enter in the thoughts of desperate men ! 
1191 Shaks. : Bam. and Jul., Act v., Sc. 1. 

When to mischief mortals bend their will, 
How soon they find fit instruments of ill ! 

1195 Pope : R. of the Lock, Canto iii., St. 125. 

Misery. 

Sharp misery had worn him to the bones. 

1196 Shaks. : Rom. and Jul., Act v., Sc. 1. 

Heaven hears and pities hapless men like me, 
For sacred ev'n to gods is misery. 

1197 Pope : Odyssey, Bk. v., Line 572. 



184 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Misfortune. 

One woe doth tread upon another's heel, 
So fast they follow. 

1198 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act iv., Sc. 7. 

As if Misfortune made the throne her seat, 
And none could be unhappy but the great. 

1199 Xicholas Rowe: Fair Penitent. Prologue. 

Mobs. 

You have many enemies that know not 
Why they are so, but, like to village curs, 
Bark when their fellows do. 

1200 Shaks. : Henry VI IL, Act ii., Sc. 4. 

The rabble all alive, 
From tippling benches, cellars, stalls, and sties, 
Swarm in the streets. 

1201 Cowper : Task, Bk. vi., Line 704. 

Mockery. 

Hence, horrible shadow! 
Unreal mockery, hence ! 

1202 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act iii., Sc. 4. 

Modesty. 

Her looks do argue her replete with modesty. 

1203 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI., Act iii., Sc. 2. 

Such an act 
That blurs the grace and blush of modesty. 

1204 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 4. 

Monarchs. 

A morsel for a monarch. 

1205 Shaks. : Ant. and Cleo., Act i., Sc. 5. 



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A lucky chance, that oft decides the fate 
Of mighty monarchs. 

1206 Thomson : Seasons, Summer, Line 1285. 

Money. 

This yellow slave 
Will knit and break religions ; bless the accurs'd ; 
Make the hoar leprosy ador'cl ; place thieves, 
And give them title, knee, and approbation, 
"With senators on the bench. 

1207 Shaks. : Timon of A., Act iv., Sc. 3. 

He had rolled in money like pigs in mud. 

1208 Hood : Miss Kilmansegg. 

'T is true we Ve money, th' only power 
That all mankind falls down before. 

Butler : Huclibras, Pt. iii., Canto ii., 

1209 Line 1327. 

Get money ; still get money, boy, 
No matter by what means. 

Ben Jonson : Every Man in His 

1210 Humour, Act ii., Sc. 3. 

Months. 

Thirty clays hath September, 
April, June, and November, 
All the rest have thirty-one, 
Excepting February alone : 
Which hath but twenty-eight, in fine, 
Till leap year gives it twenty-nine. 

1211 Common in the New England States. 

Monuments. 

Not marble, nor the gilded monuments 

Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme. 

1212 Shaks. : Sonnet do. 



186 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Mood. 

Anon they move 
In perfect phalanx, to the Dorian mood 
Of flutes and soft recorders. 

1213 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. i. Line 549. 

Fantastic as a woman's mood, 
And fierce as Frenzy's fever'd blood. 

1214 Scott: Lady of the Lake, Canto v., St. 30. 

Moon. 

Now glow'd the firmament 
With living sapphires ; Hesperus, that led 
The starry host, rode brightest, till the Moon, 
Rising in clouded majesty, at length, 
Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, 
And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. 

1215 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. iv., Line 604. 

How like a queen comes forth the lonely Moon 
From the slow opening curtains of the clouds ; 
Walking in beauty to her midnight throne ! 

1216 George Croly : Diana. 

The moon had climb'd the highest hill 

Which rises o'er the source of Dee, 
And from the eastern summit shed 

Her silver light on tower and tree. 

1217 John Lowe : Mary's Dream. 

Morality. 

Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, 
And unawares Morality expires. 

1218 Pope : *Dunciad, Bk. iv., Line 649. 

Morning. 

See how the morning opes her golden gates, 
And takes her farewell of the glorious sun ! 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 187 

How well resembles it the prime of youth, 
Trimm'd like a younker. prancing to his love. 

1219 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI.. Act ii., Sc. 1. 

Sweet is the breath of Morn, her rising sweet, 
With charm of earliest birds. 

1220 Milton: Par. Lost, Bk. iv.. Line 641. 

Night wanes — the vapors round the mountains 

cur I'd 
Melt into morn, and light awakes the world. 

1221 Byrox: Lara, Canto ii., St. 1. 

The moon is carried off in purple fire : 
Day breaks at last. 

Robert Browxixg : Return of the Druses, 

1222 Act i. 

Lord, in the morning thou shalt hear 
My voice ascending high. 

1223 Watts : Psalm v. 

Mortality. 

All, that in this world is great or gay, 
Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay. 

1224 Spexser : Ruins of Time, Line 55. 

We cannot hold mortality's strong hand. 

1225 Shaks. : King John, Act iv., Sc. 2. 

Mother. 

A woman's love 
Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak, 
And by its weakness overcomes. 

James Russell Lowell: Legend of 

1226 Brittany, Pt. ii., St.' 43. 



188 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

A mother is a mother still, 
The holiest thing alive. 

1227 Coleridge : The Three Graves. 

Mountains. 

I know a mount, the gracious Sun perceives 
First when he visits, last, too. when he leaves 
The world ; and, vainly favored, it repays 
The day-long glory of his steadfast gaze 
By no change of its large calm front of snow. 

Robert Browning: Rudel To The Lady 

1228 of Tripoli. 

And to me 
High mountains are a feeling, but the hum 
Of human cities torture. 

1229 Byron : Ch. Harold, Canto iii., St. 72. 

Mounting. 

I mount and mount toward the sky, 

The eagle's heart is mine, 

I ride to put the clouds a-by 

Where silver lakelets shine. 

The roaring streams wax white with snow, 

The eagle's nest draws near, 

The blue sky widens, hid peaks glow, 

The air is frosty clear. 

And so from cliff to cliff I rise, 

The eagle's heart is mine ; 

Above me ever broadning skies, 

Below the rivers shine. 

1230 Hamlin Garland : Mounting. 

Mourning. 

We must all die ! 
All leave ourselves, it matters not where, when, 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 189 

Nor how, so we die well: and can that man that 

does so 
Need lamentation for him ? 

Beaumont and Fletcher: Yalentinian, 

1231 Act iv., Sc. L 

Ah. surely nothing dies but something mourns. 

1232 Byron: Don Juan, Canto Hi.. St. 108. 

Murder. 

Murder most foul, as in the best it is; 
But this most foul, strange, and unnatural. 

1233 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 5. 

Murder may pass nnpunish'd for a time, 
But tardy justice will o'ertake the crime. 

1234 Dryden : Cock and Fox, Line 285. 

Music. 

The man that hath no music in himself. 
Not is not mov'd with concord of sweet sounds, 
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils ; 
The motions of his spirit are dull as night, 
And his affections dark as Erebus: 
Let no such man be trusted. 

1235 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act v., Sc. 1. 

Music's golden tongue 
Flatter'd to tears this aged man and poor. 

1236 Keats: Eve of St. Agnes, St. 3. 

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast, 
To soften rocks, or bend the knotted oak : 
I Ye read that things inanimate have mov'd, 
And. as with living souls, have been inform'd, 
By magic numbers and persuasive sound. 

1237 Congreve: Mourning Bride, Act i., Sc. 1. 



190 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Music the fiercest grief can charm, 

And fate's severest rage disarm. 

Music can soften pain to ease, 

And make despair and madness please; 

Our joys below it can improve, 

And antedate the bliss above. 

1238 Pope: Ode on St. Cecilia's Day, St. 7. 

When Music, heavenly maid, was young, 
While yet in early Greece she sung, 
The Passions oft, to hear her shell, 
Throng'd around her magic cell, 

Exulting, trembling, raging, fainting, 
Possest beyond the Muse's painting. 

1239 Collins: The Passions, Line 1. 

The soul of music slumbers in the shell, 
Till wak'd and kindled by the master's spell, 
And feeling hearts — touch them but rightly — pour 
A thousand melodies unheard before. 

1240 Rogers : Human Life, Line 362. 

A few can touch the magic string, 

And noisy Fame is proud to win them; 

Alas for those that never sing, 

But die with all their music in them ! 

1241 Oliver Wendell Holmes : The Voiceless. 



N. 
Name. 

What 's in a name ? That which we call a rose 

By any other name would smell as sweet. 

1242 Shaks. : Rom. and Jul., Act ii., Sc. 2. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 191 

Who hath not owned, with rapture-smitten frame. 
The power of grace, the magic of a name ? 

1213 Campbell: PI. of Hope, Pt. ii., Line 5. 

Nature. 

Nature ever yields reward 

To him who seeks, and loves her best. 

1*211 Barry Cornwall : Above and Below. 



O Nature, how fair is thy face, 
And how light is thy heart, and how friendless thy 
grace ! 

Owen Meredith: Lucile, Pt. i., Canto v., 

1215 St. 28. 

To him who in the love of Nature holds 
Communion with her visible forms, she speaks 
A various language; for his gayer hours 
She has a voice of gladness, and a smile 
And eloquence of beauty, and she glides 
Into his darker musings, with a mild 
And healing sympathy, that steals away 
Their sharpness, ere he is aware. 

1216 William Cullen Bryant : Thanatopsis. 

News — Newspapers. 

The first bringer of unwelcome news 
Hath but a losing office; and his tongue 
Sounds ever after as a sullen bell, 
Remember'd knolling a departing friend. 

1217 Shaks. : 2 Henry IV., Act i., Sc. 1. 

Evil news rides post, while good news baits. 

1218 Milton: Samson Agonistes, Line 1538. 



192 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Turn to the press — its teeming sheets survey, 
Big with the wonders of each passing day ; 
Births, deaths, and weddings, forgeries, fires, and 

wrecks, 
Harangues and hailstones, brawls and broken 

necks. 

1249 Sprague: Curiosity. 

Newton. 

Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: 
God said, ''Let Newton be ! " and all was light. 
Pope: Epitaph intended for Sir Isaac 

1250 Newton. 

Newton (that proverb of the mind), alas! 
Declared, with all his grand discoveries recent. 
That he himself felt only "like a youth 
Picking up shells by the great ocean — Truth." 

1251 Byron: Don Juan, Canto vii., St. 5. 

New Year. 

The wave is breaking on the shore, — 
The echo fading from the chime — 
Again the shadow moveth o'er 
The dial-plate of time ! 

1252 Whittier : The New Year. 

Niagara. 

Flow on for ever in thy glorious robe 
Of terror and of beauty; . . . God hath set 
His rainbow on thy forehead; and the cloud 
Mantles around thy feet. 

1253 Mrs. Sigourxey: Niagara. 

Night. 

Dark night, that from the eye his function takes, 
The ear more quick of apprehension makes. 

1254 Shaks.: Mid. N. Dream, Act iii., Sc. 2. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 193 

Now began 

Night with her sullen wing to double-shade 

The desert: fowls in their clay nests were conch'd, 

And now wild beasts came forth, the woods to roam. 

1255 Milton: Par. Regained, Bk. i., Line 199. 

Awful Night ! 
Ancestral mystery of mysteries. 

1256 George Eliot: Spanish Gypsy, Bk. iv. 

Night, night it is. night upon the palms. 
Night, night it is. the land wind has blown. 
Starry, starry night, over deep and height ; 
Love, love in the valley, love all alone. 

Robert Louis Stevenson : The Feast 

1257 of Famine. 

Night is the time to weep. 

To wet with unseen tears 
Those graves of memory where sleep 

The joys of other years. 

James Montgomery: The Issues of Life 
12 53 and Death. 

Nightingale. 

The nightingale, if she should sing by day, 
When every goose is cackling, would be thought 
No better a musician than the wren. 
How many things by season season'd are 
To their right praise, and true perfection ! 

1259 Shaks.: ^f. of Venice, Act v., Sc. 1. 

Nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray 
Warblest at eve. when all the woods are still, 
Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill. 

1260 Milton: Sonnet 1. 



194 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Nobility. 

Noble by birth, yet nobler by great deeds. 

Longfellow: Tales of a Wayside Inn. 

1261 Emma and Eginhard. 

For he who is honest is noble, 
Whatever his fortunes or birth. 

1262 Alice Cary: Nobility. 

North. 

Ask where's the north? at York, 't is on the Tweed; 

In Scotland, at the Orcades; and there, 

At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where. 

1263 Pope : Essay on Man, Epis. ii., Line 222. 

November. 

Next was November ; he full gross and fat 

As fed with lard, and that right well might seem; 

For he had been a-fatting hogs of late, 

That yet his brows with sweat did reek and steam. 

Spenser: Faerie Queene, Bk.vii., Canto vii., 

1264 St. 40. 

In rattling showers dark November's rain, 
From every stormy cloud, descends amain. 

1265 Ruskin: The Months. 

Numbers. 

As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, 

I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. 

1266 Pope: Prologue to the Satires, Line 127. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 195 

o. 

Oak. 

Those green-robed senators of mighty woods, 
Tall oaks, branch-charmed by the earnest stars, 
Dream, and so dream all night without a stir. 

1267 Keats : Hyperion, Bk. i. 

A song to the oak, the brave old oak, 
Who hath ruled in the greenwood long! 

1268 Henry F. Chorley: The Brave Old Oak. 

Oars. 

The oars we,re silver, 
Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made 
The water which they beat to follow faster, 
As amorous of their strokes. 

1269 Shaks. : Ant. anal Cleo., Act ii., Sc. 2. 

Oaths. 

'T is not the many oaths that make the truth ; 
But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true. 

1270 Shaks.: All 's Well, Act iv., Sc. 2. 

Oaths were not purpos'd, more than law, 
To keep the good and just in awe, 
But to confine the bad and sinful, 
Like moral cattle, in a pinfold. 

1271 Butler : Hudibras, Pt. ii., Canto ii., Line 197. 

Obedience. 

Let them obey that know not how to rule. 

1272 Shaks.: 2 Henri/ VI., Act v., Sc. 1. 

Obedience is the Christian's crown. 

1273 Schiller: Fight with the Dragon, St. 2L 



196 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Observation. 

For lie is but a bastard to the time 
That doth not smack of observation. 

1274 Shaks.: King John. Act i.. Sc. 1. 

Ocean. 

Roll on. thou deep and dark blue Ocean — roll! 
Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; 
Man marks the earth with ruin — his control 
Stops with the shore : — upon the watery plain 
The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain 
A shadow of man's ravage, save his own. 
When, for a moment, like a drop of rain. 
He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan. 
Without a grave, imknell'd. uncomn'd. and un- 
known. 

1275 Byron: CJi. Harold. Canto iv.. St. 179. 

One height 
Showed him the ocean, stretched in liquid light. 
And he could hear its multitudinous roar. 
Its plunge and hiss upon the pebbled shore. 

1276 George Eliot: Legend o/Jubal. Line 506. 

October. 

The sweet calm sunshine of October, now 
Warms the low spot : upon its grassy mould 
The purple oak-leaf falls : the birchen bough 
Drops its bright spoil like arrow-heads of gold. 

1277 William Cullex Bryant : October^ 1866. 

October's foliage vellows with his cold. 

127S Rusklx: The Months. 

Offence. 

In such a time as this, it is not meet 

That every nice offence should bear his comment. 

1279 Shaks.: Jul. Ccesar. Act iv.. Sc. 3. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 197 

And love the offender, yet detest the offence. 

1280 Pope: Eloisa to A., Line 192. 

Old Age. 

Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty ; 
For in my youth I never did apply 
Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood ; 
Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo 
The means of weakness and debility: 
Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, 
Frosty, but kindly. 

1281 Shaks. : As You Like It, Act ii., Sc. 3. 

When he is forsaken, 

Withered and shaken, 

What can an old man do but die ? 

1282 Hood: Ballad. 

Opinion. 

Opinion 's but a fool, that makes us scan 
The outward habit by the inward man. 

1283 Shaks. : Pericles, Act ii., Sc. 2. 

He that complies against his will 
Is of his own opinion still. 

Butler: Hudibras, Pt. iii., Canto iii., 

1284 Line 547. 

Opportunity. 

O Opportunity ! thy guilt is great : 
'T is thou that execut'st the traitor's treason ; 
Thou sett'st the wolf where he the lamb may get ; 
Whoever plots the sin, thou point'st the season ; 
'T is thou that spurn'st at right, at law, at reason. 

1285 Shaks.: R. of Lucrece, Line 876. 



198 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Oracle. 

I am Sir Oracle, 
And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark ! 

1286 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act i., Sc. 1. 
Oratory. 

Thence to the famous orators repair, 
Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence 
Wielded at will that fierce democracy, 
Shook the Arsenal, and fulmined over Greece, 
To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne. 

1287 Milton: Par. Regained, Bk. iv., Line 267. 

Order. 

Order is heav'n's first law; and this confest, 
Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, 
More rich, more wise ; but who infers from hence 
That such are happier, shocks all common sense. 

1288 Pope: Essay on Man, Epis. iv., Line 49. 

Ornament. 

Thus ornament is but the guiled shore 
To a most dangerous sea. 

1289 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act iii., Sc. 2. 

Owl. 

It was the owl that shriek'd, the fatal bellman, 
Which gives the stern'st good-night. 

1290 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act ii., Sc. 2. 

P. 
Pain. 

Pain pays the income of each precious thing. 

1291 Shaks.: R. of Lucrece, Line 334. 

Pain is no longer pain when it is past. 

Margaret J. Preston: Sonnet. Nature's 

1292 Lesson. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS, 199 

The sad mechanic exercise 
Like dull - pain. 

1293 Tennyson : In Mt ' ./' v., St. 2. 

Painter. 

Wit] that when some great painter dips 

His pencil in the gloom of earthquake a 

1294 Shelley: Ret U )J Islam, Canto v., St. 23. 

Palm. 
No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung: 
LLke some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung. 

1295 Heber : Pah 

Pan. 

A:. 1 they heard the words it said. — 
•• P. .a > ..Ira I ' _ra: Par. :s dead ! 
Pan. Pan 

1296 Mrs. Browning: The Dead Pan. 

Pang. 

And even the pang preceding death 
Bids expectation rise. 
1 2 r j 7 Goldsmith: The Cap:v:ity* Act ii. 

Paradise. 

Friends jut ;i sight, in £aith to muse 

How grows in Paradise : 

129- Keble: Burial rfthe Z 

Pardon. 

ess to the injured does belong: 
But they lone the wrong. 

Dkyden: '_ sd fa, Pt. ii.. 

1299 Act i.. Sc. 2. 



200 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Parents. 

Great families of yesterday we show, 

And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who. 

1300 Defoe : True-Born Englishman, Pt. i., Line 1. 

Parting. 

What ! gone without a word ? 
Ay, so true love should do : it cannot speak ; 
For truth hath better deeds, than words, to grace it. 

1301 Shaks. : Two Gent, of V., Act ii., Sc. 2. 

They who go 
Feel not the pain of parting; it is they 
Who stay behind that suffer. 

1302 Longfellow: Michael Angelo, Pt. I., i. 

Such partings break the heart they fondly hope to 
heal. 

1303 Byron: Ch. Harold, Canto i., St. 10. 

Passion. 

Fountain heads and pathless groves, 
Places which pale passion loves. 

John Fletcher : The Nice Valour, 

1304 Act iii., Sc. 3. 

Passions are likened best to floods and streams : 
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb. 

1305 Sir Walter Raleigh: Silent Lover. 

Past, The. 

Over the trackless past, somewhere, 
Lie the lost days of our tropic youth, 
Only regained by faith and prayer, 
Only recalled by prayer and plaint: 
Each lost day has its patron saint. 

1306 Bret Harte: The Lost Galleon, Last St. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 201 

Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, 
As the swift seasons roll ! 
Leave thy low-vaulted past ! 

Oliver Wendell Holmes : Chambered 

1307 Nautilus. 

Patience. 

How poor are they, that have not patience ! 
What wound did ever heal, but by degrees ? 

1308 Shaks. : Othello, Act ii., Sc. 3. 

Patience, thou young and rose-lipp'd cherubim. 

1309 Shaks.: Othello, Act iv., Sc. 2. 

Patience is more oft the exercise 
Of saints, the trial of their fortitude, 
Making them each his own deliverer, 
And victor over all 
That tyranny or fortune can inflict. 

1310 Milton : Samson Agonistes, Line 1287. 

Patience is a plant 
That grows not in all gardens. 

1311 Longfellow: Michael Angelo, Pt. ii., 4. 

There are times when patience proves at fault. 

1312 Kobert Browning : Paracelsus, Sc. 3. 

Patriotism. 

Strike — for your altars and your fires ; 
Strike — for the green graves of your sires; 
God, and your native land ! 

1313 Fitz-Greene Halleck : Marco Bozzaris. 



202 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, 
One Nation evermore ! 

Oliver Wendell Holmes : Voyage of 

1314 the Good Ship Union. 

My country, 't is of thee, 
Sweet land of liberty, — 

Of thee I sing : 
Land where my fathers died, 
Land of the pilgrims' pride, 
From every mountain side 

Let freedom ring. 

1315 Samuel F. Smith : National Hymn. 

Sail on, O Ship of State ! 
Sail on, O Union, strong and great ! 
Humanity with all its fears, 
With all the hopes of future years, 
Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! 

1316 Longfellow: Building of the Ship. 

Peace. 

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; 
For then both parties nobly are subdued, 
And neither party loser. 

1317 Shaks.: 2 Henry IV., Act iv., Sc. 2. 

I, in this weak piping time of peace, 
Have no delight to pass away the time, 
Unless to see my shadow in the sun. 

1318 Shaks.: Richard III., Act i., Sc. 1. 

Why prate of peace ? when, warriors all, 
We clank in harness into hall, 
And ever bare upon the board 
Lies the necessary sword. 

1319 Robert Louis Stevenson ; The Woodman. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 203 

Peace bath her victories, 
No less renowned than war. 

1320 Milton : Sonnet xvi. 

Peace was on the earth and in the air. 

1321 William Cullen Bryant : The Ages, St. 30. 

Pearls. 

Go boldly forth, my simple lay, 
Whose accents flow with artless ease, 
Like orient pearls at random strung. 

Sir William Jones: A Persian Song 

1322 of Hqfiz. 

Pen. 

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, 
The pen is mightier than the sword. 

1323 Bulwer-Lytton : Richelieu, Act ii., Sc. 2. 

This dull product of a scoffer's pen. 

1324 Wordsworth: Excursion, Bk. ii. 

People. 

And what the people but a herd confus'd, 
A miscellaneous rabble, who extol 
Things vulgar, and, well weigh'd, scarce worth the 
praise ? 

1325 Milton: Par. Regained, Bk. iii., Line 49. 

Perfection. 

One fairer than my love ! the all-seeing sun 
Ne'er saw her match, since first the world begun. 

1326 Shaks. : Rom. and Jul, Act i., Sc. 2. 



204 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Perjury. 

At lovers' perjuries, 
They say, Jove laughs. 

1327 Shaks. : Rom. and Jul., Act ii., Sc. 2. 

Perseverance. 

Perseverance, dear my lord, 
Keeps honor bright. To have done, is to hang 
Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail 
In monumental mockery. 

1328 Shaks. : TroiL and Cress., Act iii., Sc. 3. 

Persuasion. 

He from whose lips divine persuasion flows. 

1329 Pope: Iliad, Bk. vii., Line 143. 

Petitions. 

Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day ; 
Let other hours be set apart for business. 

1330 Fielding : Tom Thumb the Great, Act i., Sc. 2. 

Philosophy. 

How charmiug is divine Philosophy! 

Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, 

But musical as is Apollo's late, 

And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, 

Where no crude surfeit reigns. 

1331 Milton: Comus, Line 476. 

Physic. 

Throw physic to the dogs, I '11 none of it. 

1332 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act v., Sc. 3. 

Take physic, pomp ; 
Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel. 

1333 Shaks. : King Lear, Act iii., Sc. 4. 



DICTIONARY OF POETK AL QUOTATIONS. 205 

Piety. 

Why should not piety be made, 
As well as equity, a trade. 

money by devotion, 
As well as making of a motion ? 

1334 Butler: Misc. Thoughts, Line 295. 

Pilot. 

Oh pilot, 't is a fearful night ! 
There 's danger on the deep. 

1335 Thomas Hayxes Bayly: The Pilot. 

Pines. 

Pdsest from forth thy silent sea of pines. 

1336 Coleridge: Hy m n in the Vale of Ch a m o u n i . 

Pipe. 

Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe 

When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe. 

1337 Byron: The Island. Canto ii.. St. 19. 

Pity. 

Pity Is the virtue of the law. 
And none but tyrants use it cruelly. 

1338 Shaks.: Timon of A.. Act iii., Sc. 5. 

Careless their merits or their faults to scan. 
His pity gave ere charity began. 

1339 Goldsmith: Des. Village, Line 161. 

Place. 

The fittest place where man can die 
Is where he dies for man ! 

Michael J. Barry: The Dublin Xotion. 

1340 Sept. 28, 1844- 



206 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Play. 

The play 's the thing 
Wherein I '11 catch the conscience of the king. 

1341 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act ii., Sc. 2. 

Pleasure. 

Pleasure, and revenge. 
Have ears more deaf than adders, to the voice 
Of any true decision. 

1342 Shaks.: Troil. and Cress., Act ii., Sc. 2. 

But not e'en pleasure to excess is good : 
What most elates, then sinks the soul as low. 

Thomson : Castle of Indolence, Canto i., 

1343 St. 63. 

Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure 
turns to pain. 

1344 Robert Browning : La Salsiaz, Line 170. 

But pleasures are like poppies spread, 
You seize the flower, its bloom is shed. 

1345 Burns: Tarn o' Shorter. 

Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, 
Soon he sooth'd his soul to pleasures. 

1346 Dryden : Alex. Feast, Line 97. 

Poetry — Poets. 

It is not poetry that makes men poor; 
For few do write that were not so before. 

1347 Butler : Misc. Thoughts, Line 441. 

A verse may find him who a sermon flies, 
And turn delight into a sacrifice. 

1348 Herbert: Temple, Church Porch, St. 1. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 207 

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, 
And tell them; and the truth of truths is love. 
Bailey : Festus, Sc. Another ana a Better 

1349 World. 

The poor poet 
Worships without reward, nor hopes to find 
A heaven save in his worship. 

1350 George Eliot : Spanish Gypsy, Bk. i. 

God is the Perfect Poet, 
Who in creation acts his own conceptions. 

1351 Robert Browning : Paracelsus, Sc. 2. 

Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong, 
And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song. 

1352 Keats : Epis. to George Felton Mathews. 

Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, 
Who gave us nobler loves and nobler cares. — 
The poets who on earth have made us heirs 
Of truth and pure delight, by heavenly lays. 

1353 Wordsworth : Personal Talk. 

Pole. y 

True as the needle to the pole, 
Or as the dial to the sun. 

1354 Barton Booth: Song. 

Pomp. 

Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time, 

So " Bonnie Doon " but tarry ; 
Blot out the epic's stately rhyme, 

But spare his " Highland Mary " ! 

1355 Whittier : Lines on Burns. 



208 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Poppies. 

As full-blown poppies, overcharged with rain, 
Decline trie head, and drooping kiss the plain, — 
So sinks the youth. 

1356 Pope : Iliad, Bk. viii., Line 371. 

Popularity. 

O, he sits high in all the people's hearts : 
And that, which would appear offence in us, 
His countenance, like richest alchymy, 
Will change to virtue and to worthiness. 

1357 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar, Act L, Sc. 3. 

Bareheaded, popularly low he bow'd, 
And paid the salutations of the crowd. 

Dryden : Palamon and Arcite, Bk. iii., 

1358 Line 689. 

Possession. 

What we have we prize not to the worth, 
Whiles we enjoy it ; but being lacked and lost, 
Why then we rack the value, then we find 
The virtue that possession would not show us 
Whiles it was ours. 

1359 Shaks. : Much Ado, Act iv., Sc. 1. 

Possession means to sit astride of the world, 
Instead of having it astride of you. 

Charles Kixgsley : Saint's Tragedy, 

1360 Act L, Sc. 2. 

Poverty. 

My poverty, but not my will, consents. 

1361 Shaks. : Rom. and Jul., Act v., Sc. 1. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 209 

If we from wealth to poverty descend, 

Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend. 

1362 Drydex : Wife of Bath, Line 485. 

Most wretched men 
Are cradled into poetry by wrong. 
They learn in suffering what they teach in song. 

1363 Shelley : Julian and Maddalo. 

In ev'ry sorrowing soul I pour'd delight. 
And poverty stood smiling in my sight. 

1364 Pope : Odyssey, Bk. xvii., Line 505. 

Power. 

What can power give more than food and drink, 
To live at ease, and not be bound to think? 

1365 Drydex : Medal Line 235. 

The good old rule 
Sufficeth them, the simple plan. 
That they should take who have the power. 
And they should keep who can. 

1366 Wordsworth : Rob Roy's Grave. 

Prairie. 

Far in the East like low-hung clouds 

The waving woodlands lie ; 
Far in the West the glowing plain 

Melts warmly in the sky. 
Xo accent wounds the reverent air, — 

Xo footprint dints the sod, — 
Low in the light the prairie lies 

Rapt in a dream of God. 

1367 John Hay : The Prairie. 



210 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Praise. 

Praising what is lost, 
Makes the remembrance dear. 

1368 Shaks. : All f s Well, Act v., Sc. 3. 

Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, 
And without sneering teach the rest to sneer. 

1369 Pope : Prologue to the Satires, Line 201. 

Prayer. 

Let never day nor night unhallow'd pass, 
But still remember what the Lord hath done. 

1370 Shaks. : 2 Henry VI., Act ii., Sc. 1. 

If by prayer 
Incessant I could hope to change the will 
Of him who all things can, I would not cease 
To weary him with my assiduous cries ; 
But prayer against his absolute decree 
No more avails than breath against the wind 
Blown stifling back on him that breathes it forth : 
Therefore to his great bidding I submit. 

1371 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. xi., Line 307. 

He prayeth best who loveth best 
All things both great and small ; 
For the dear God who loveth us, 
He made and loveth all. 

1372 Coleridge: Ancient Mariner, Pt. vii. 

God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, 
And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our 

face, 
A gauntlet with a gift in 't. 

1373 Mrs. Browning : Aurora Leigh, Bk. ii. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 211 

More things are wrought by prayer 
Than this world dreams of. 

1374 Tennyson : Morte d' Arthur, Line 247. 

Preaching. 

I preached as never sure to preach again, 
And as a dying man to dying men. 

Richard Baxter : Love Breathing 

1375 Thanks and Praise. 

Present. 

The Present, the Present is all thou hast 
For thy sure possessing ; 
Like the patriarch's angel hold it fast 
Till it gives its blessing. 

1376 Whittier : My Soul and I, St. 34. 

Press.. 

Here shall the Press the People's right maintain, 
Unaw'd by influence and unbrib'd by gain. 

Joseph Story : Motto of the " Salem 

1377 Register:' 

Pride. 

Pride hath no other glass 
To show itself, but pride ; for supple knees 
Feed arrogance, and are the proud man's fees. 

1378 Shaks. : Troll, and Cress., Act iii., Sc. 3. 

And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin 
Is pride that apes humility. 

1379 Coleridge : The Devil's Thoughts. 

Priest. 

No nightly trance or breathed spell 

Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. 

1380 Milton : Hymn on Christ's Nativity, Line 173. 



212 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Primrose. 

A primrose by a river's brim 
A yellow primrose was to him, 
And it was nothing more. 

1381 Wordsworth : Peter Bell, Pt. L, St. 12. 

Printing. 

Blest be the gracious Power, who taught mankind 
To stamp a lasting image of the mind ! 

1382 Crabbe : The Library, Line 69. 

Some said, " John, print it" ; others said, "Not so." 
Some said, "It might do good"; others said, "No." 
Bunyan : Pilgrim's Progress, Apology for 

1383 his Book. 

Prison. 

Stone walls do not a prison make, 
Nor iron bars a cage; 
Minds innocent and quiet, take 
That for an hermitage. 

1384 Lovelace : To Althea, from Prison, iv. 

Procrastination. 

Procrastination is the thief of time : 
Year after year it steals, till all are fled, 
And to the mercies of a moment leaves 
The vast concerns of an eternal scene. 

1385 Young : Night Thoughts, Night L, Line 393. 

Prodigies. 

When these prodigies 
Do so conjointly meet, let not men say 
" These are their reasons, — They are natural ; " 
For, I believe, they are portentous things 
Unto the climate that they point upon. 

1386 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar, Act i., Sc. 3. 



DICTIONARY OF POETK AL QUOTATIONS. 213 

Progress. 

Yet I doubt not thro* the ages one increasing pur- 
pose runs. 

And the thoughts of men are widen'd with the 
process of the suns. 

1387 Tennyson: Locksley Hall, St. 69. 

Promise. 

And be these juggling fiends no more believ'd, 
That palter with us in a double sense : 
That keep the word of promise to our ear 
And break it to our hope. 

1388 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act v., Sc. 8. 

Proof. 

Give me the ocular proof ; 

Make me to see 't : or. at the least, so prove it, 
That the probation bear no hinge, nor loop, 
To hang a doubt on. 
13S9 Shaks.: Othello. Act iii.. Sc. 3. 

Prophecy. 

Coming events cast their shadows before. 

1390 Campbell : LochiePs Warning. 

Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life. 
The evening beam that smiles the cloud away. 
And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray ! 

1391 Byron: Bride o/Ab., Canto ii.. St. 20. 

Prose. 

And he whose fustian *s so sublimely bad, 
It is not poetry, but prose run mad/ 

1392 Pope : Prol. to Satires. Line 1S6. 



214 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

And Sidney, warbler of poetic prose. 

1393 Cowper : Task, Bk. iv., Line 511. 

Proselytes. 

The greatest saints and sinners have been made 

Of proselytes of one another's trade. 

1391 Butler : Misc. Thoughts. Line 315. 

Prospects. 

As distant prospects please us. but when near 
We find but desert rocks and fleeting air. 

Samuel Garth : Dispensatory, Canto iii., 

1395 Line 27. 

Prosperity. 

Prosperity *s the very bond of love ; 

Whose fresh complexion, and whose heart together 

Affliction alters. 

1396 Shaks. : WvnJL Tale, Act iv., Sc. 3. 

Surer to prosper than prosperity 
Could have assured us. 

1397 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. ii., Line 39. 

Providence. 

There 's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. 

1398 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act v.. Sc. 2. 

What in me is dark 
Illumine, what is low raise and support ; 
That, to the height of this great argument, 
I may assert Eternal Providence 
And justify the ways of God to men. 

1399 Milton: Par. Lost, Bk. L Line 22. 



DICTIONARY OF 1 EAXIOXS. 21& 

i 

lenies 

I r Ipis. i., Line _ 

In every change both mine and yours. 

14 1 Cowper: A Fable, Moral. 

Fr-dence 

d bi we know, and know our own, 
S : .is not either to provoke, or dread 
New war, provoked. 

1408 f 2-:: Bk . Line 643. 

- Is or prudence points the way. 
14 : Robert Lowth : Choice of Here: 

Prudery. 

iritherVl features show 

She might b young some forty years : s 
pinion'd close upon her hips, 

bea erect, her fan upon her lips, 

t . ; 1 1 ' ;1, her eyes both gone astray 

. yon amorous couple in their play, 
id unkerchiefd neck den— 
] 

--ead and mincing in 
Daly at chink of bell to morning prayers. 

1401 Truth, Line 13. 



Pulpit. 

1 - a Butler : Hudibras, Pt. i. 7 Canto L, Line 11. 



/Jpit, drum 

i 



216 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Punishment. 

Back to thy punishment, 

False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings. 

1406 Milton : Par. Lost Bk. ii., Line 699. 

Purity. 

'T is said the lion will turn and nee 
From a maid in the pride of her purity. 

1407 Byron : Siege of Corinth, St. 21. 

Purpose. 

Make thick my blood. 

Stop up the access and passage. to remorse; 
That no compunctious visitings of nature 
Shake my fell purpose. 

1108 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act L, Sc. 5. 

Purse. 

Who steals my purse steals trash ; 't is something, 
nothing ; 

'T was mine, 't is his, and has been slave to thou- 
sands. 

1109 Shaks. : Othello, Act iii., Sc. 3. 

Pygmies. 

Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps ; 
And pyramids are pyramids in vales. 

1110 Young : Night Thoughts, Xight vi., Line 309. 

Q. 

Quacks. 

Out, you impostors ! 
Quack-salving cheating mountebanks ! — your skill 
Is to make sound men sick, and sick men kill. 

1111 Massinger : Virgin-Martyr, Act iv., Sc. 1. 



DICTIONABY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 217 

Void of all honor, avaricious, rash. 

The daring tribe compound their boasted trash — 

Tincture of syrup, lotion, drop, or pill : 

All tempt the sick to trust the lying bill. 

1412 Crabbe : Borough, Letter vii., Line 75. 

Quakers. 

Upright Quakers please both man and God. 

1413 Pope : Dunciad. Bk. iv., Line 208. 

The Quaker loves an ample brim, 

A hat that bows to no salaam; 
And dear the beaver is to him 

As if it never made a dam. 

1414 Hood : All Bound my Hat. 

Quarrels. 

Beware 
Of entrance to a quarrel: but. being in, 
Bear ? t that the opposed may beware of thee. 

1415 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act i., Sc. 3. 

They who in quarrels interpose, 
Must often wipe a bloody nose. 

1416 Gay: Fables, Pt. i., Fable 34. 

Queen. 

She moves a goddess, and she looks a queen. 

1417 Pope : Iliad, Bk. iii., Line 208. 

Quickness. 

With too much quickness ever to be taught : 
With too much thinking to have common thought. 

1418 Pope : Moral Essays, £pis. ii., Line 97. 



218 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Quiet. 

Quiet to quick bosoms is a hell. 

1419 Byron: Ch. Harold, Canto iii., St. 42. 

Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past. 

1420 James Russell Lowell: The Cathedral. 

Quips. 

Quips and Cranks and wanton Wiles, 
Nods and Becks and wreathed Smiles. 

1421 Milton: U Allegro, Line 25. 

Quotation. 

The devil can cite scripture for his purpose. 

1422 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act L, Sc. 3. 

Nor surfers Horace more in wrong translations 
By wits, than critics in as wrong quotations. 

1423 Pope : E. on Criticism, Pt. iii., Line 103. 



Race. 

He lives to build, not boast, a generous race ; 
No tenth transmitter of a foolish face. 

1424 Richard Savage : The Bastard, Line 7. 

Rage. 

Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire. 

1425 Dryden: Alex. Feast, Line 160. 

Rain. 

For the rain it raineth every day. 

1426 Shaks. : Tw. Night, Act v., Sc. 1. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 219 

How beautiful is the rain ! 

After the dust and heat. 

In the broad and fiery street, 

In the narrow lane. 

How beautiful is the rain ! 

1427 Longfellow : Rain in Summer, Sts. 1 and 2. 

The rain comes when the wind calls. 

142S Emerson : Woodnotes, Pt. ii., Line 271. 

In winter, when the dismal rain 
Came down in slanting lines. 

1429 Alexander Smith : A Life Drama, Sc. 2. 

Rainbow. 

Hail, many-colored messenger, that ne'er 
Dost disobey the wife of Jupiter ; 
Who, with thy saffron wings, upon my flowers 
Diffusest honey-drops, refreshing showers ; 
And with each end of thy blue bow dost crown 
My bosky acres, and my unshrubb'd down. 
Rich scarf to my proud earth. 

1430 Shaks. : Tempest, Act iv., Sc. 1. 

That gracious thing made up of tears and light. 

1431 Coleridge : Two Founts. St. 5. 

The rainbow comes and goes. 
And lovely is the rose. 

Wordsworth : Intimations of Immortality, 

1432 St. 2. 

There was an awful rainbow once in heaven : 
We know her woof, her texture ; she is given 
In the dull catalogue of common things. 
Philosophy will clip an angel's wings. 
1-133 Keats : Lamia, Pt. ii. 



220 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Hank. 

Superior worth your rank requires : 
For that, mankind reveres your sires; 
If you degenerate from your race, 
Their merits heighten your disgrace. 

1434 Gay : Fables, Pt. ii., Fable 11. 

The rank is but the guinea stamp, 
The man 's the gowd for a' that. 

1435 Burns : For a' That and a' That 

Raptures. 

If such there breathe, go, mark him well ! 
For him no minstrel raptures swell. 

Scott : Lay of the Last Minstrel, Canto vi., 

1436 St. 1. 

Rashness. 

Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, 
The positive pronounce without dismay. 

1437 Cow t per : Conversation, Line 145. 

One more unfortunate 

Weary of breath, 
Rashly importunate, 

Gone to her death. 

1438 Hood: The Bridge of Sighs. 

Reading. 

Many books, 
Wise men have said, are wearisome ; who reads 
Incessantly, and to his reading brings not 
A spirit and judgment equal or superior, 
Uncertain and unsettled still remains — 
Deep versed in books, and shallow in himself. 

1439 Milton : Par. Regained, Bk. iv. ; Line 321. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 221 

When the last reader reads no more. 

Oliver Wendell Holmes : The Last 
H4n Reader. 

Staff the head 

With all such reading as was never read : 
For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it. 

1441 Pope : Dunciad, Bk. iv.. Line 249. 

Realms. 

These are our realms, no limit to their sway. — 
Our flag the sceptre all who meet obey. 

1442 Byron: Corsair, Canto i.. St. 1. 

Reason. 

I have no other but a woman's reason ; 
I think him so. because I think him so. 

1443 Shaks. : Two Gen:, of T.. Act i.. Sc. 2. 

Reason raise o'er instinct as you can. 

In this ? t is God directs, in that 't is man. 

1444: Pope : Essay on Man, Epis. ill . . Line 97. 

I would make 
Reason my guide. 

William Cullex Bryant : Conjunction 
14:45 of Jupiter and Venus. 

The confidence of reason give. 

And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live ! 

1446 Wordsworth : Ode to Duty. 

Indu'd 
With sanctity of reason. 

1447 Milton: Par. Lost. Bk. vii.. Line 507. 



222 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Rebellion. 

Their weapons only 
Seem'd on our side, but, for their spirits and souls, 
This word, rebellion, it had froze them up, 
As fish are in a pond. 
1448 Shaks. : 2 Henry IV., Act i., Se. 1. 

Rebellion now began, for lack 

Of zeal and plunder, to grow slack. 

Butler : Hudibras, Pt. iii., Canto ii., 
1419 Line 31. 

Rebuff. 

Then welcome each rebuff 
That turns earth's smoothness rough, 
Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go ! 

1450 Robert Browning : Rabbi Ben Ezra. 

Rebuke. 

Forbear sharp speeches to her ; She 's a lady 
So tender of rebukes, that words are strokes, 
And strokes death to her. 

1451 Shaks. : Cymbeline, Act iii., Sc. 5. 

Reckoning. 

So comes a reck'ning when the banquet 's o'er, 
The dreadful reck'ning, and men smile no more. 

1452 Gay : What Z>' ye Call It, Act ii., Sc. 9. 

Recollection. 

How dear to my heart are the scenes of my child- 
hood, 
When fond recollection presents them to view. 

1453 Wordsworth : The Old Oaken Bucket. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 223 

Reconciliation. 

Never can true reconcilement grow, 

Where wounds of deadly hate have pierc'd so deep. 

1454 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. iv., Line 98. 

Records. 

In records that defy the tooth of time. 

1455 Young : The Statesman's Creed. 

Recreation. 

Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue 
But moody and dull melancholy, 
Kinsman to grim and comfortless despair, 
And, at her heels, a huge infectious troop 
Of pale distemper atures, and foes to life ? 

1456 Shaks. : Com. of Errors, Act v., Sc. 1. 

Of recreation there is none 
So free as Fishing is alone ; 
All other pastimes do no less 
Than mind and body both possess : 

My hand alone my work can do, 

So I can fish and study too. 

Izaak Walton : The Complete Angler. 

1457 The Angler's Song. 

Redress. 

What need we any spur but our own cause 
To prick us to redress. 

1458 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar, Act ii., Sc. 1. 

Reflection. 

Remembrance and reflection how allied ! 

What thin partitions sense from thought divide ! 

1459 Pope : Essay on Man, Epis. i., Line 225. 



224 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Reformation. 

'T is the talent of our English nation, 
Still to be plotting some new Reformation. 

1460 Dryden : Sophonisba, Prologue. 

Regret. 

O last regret, regret can die ! 

1461 Tennyson : In Memoriam, lxxviii., St. 5. 

Deep as first love, and wild with all regret. 
Oh death in life, the days that are no more ! 

1462 Tennyson : The Princess, Pt. iv., Line 36. 

Religion. 

In Religion 
What damned error, but some sober brow 
Will bless it, and approve it with a text, 
Hiding the grossness with fair ornament. 

1463 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act iii., Sc. 2. 

Religion is a spring, 
That from some secret, golden mine 
Derives her birth, and thence doth bring 
Cordials in every drop, and wine. 

1464 Henry Vaughan : Religion. 

Religion crowns the statesman and the man, 
Sole source of public and of private peace. 

Young: Public Situation of the Kingdom, 

1465 Line 500. 

Pity Religion has so seldom found 
A skilful guide into poetic ground ! 

1466 Cowper : Table Talk, Line 17. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 225 

Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, 
Ready to pass to the American strand. 

1467 Herbert : The Church Militant 

Remedies. 

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, 
Which we ascribe to Heaven; the fated sky 
Gives us free scope ; only, doth backward pull 
Our slow designs, when we ourselves are dull. 

1468 Shaks. : All 's Well, Act i., Sc. 1. 

Remembrance. 

The setting sun, and music at the close, 

As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, 

Writ in remembrance more than things long past. 

1469 Shaks. : Richard II., Act ii., Sc. 1. 

Praising what is lost, 
Makes the remembrance dear. 

1470 Shaks. : All 's Well, Act v., Sc. 3. 

I 've been so long remembered, I 'm forgot. 

1471 Young : Night Thoughts, Night iv., Line 57. 

I remember, I remember, 

The fir trees dark and high : 

I used to think their slender tops 

Were close against the sky ; 

It was a childish ignorance, 

But now 't is little joy 

To know I 'm farther off from heaven 

Than when I was a boy. 

1472 Hood : / Remember, I Remember. 



226 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Remorse. 

Remorse is as the heart in which it grows, 
If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews 
Of true repentance ; but if proud and gloomy, 
It is the poison tree that, pierced to the inmost, 
Weeps only tears of poison. 

1473 Coleridge : Remorse, Act i., Sc. 1. 

Renown. 

Short is my date, but deathless my renown. 

1474 Pope : Iliad, Bk. ix., Line 535. 

Repartee. 

A man renown'd for repartee 
Will seldom scruple to make free 
With friendship's finest feeling, 
Will thrust a dagger at your breast, 
And say he wounded you in jest, 
By way of balm for healing. 

1475 Cowper : Friendship, Line 16. 

Repentance. 

Who by repentance is not satisfied 

Is nor of heaven nor earth ; for these are pleased ; 

By penitence the Eternal's wrath 's appeased. 

1476 Shaks. : Two Gent, of V., Act v., Sc. 4. 

Illusion is brief, but Repentance is long ! 

1477 Schiller : Lay of the Bell, St. 4. 

Repentance is the weight 
Of indigested meals eat yesterday. 

1478 George Eliot : Spanish Gypsy, Bk. ii. 

Amid the roses fierce Repentance rears 
Her snaky crest. 

1479 Thomson: Seasons, Spring, Line 996. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 227 

Repose. 

The best of men have ever loved repose : 
They hate to mingle in the filthy fray, 
Where the soul sours, and gradual rancor grows, 
Imbitter'd more from peevish day to day. 

Thomson : Castle of Indolence, Canto i., 

1480 St. 17. 

Her suffering ended with the day, 

Yet lived she at its close, 
And breathed the long, long night away, 

In statue-like repose. 

1481 James Aldrich : A Death-Bed. 

Reproof. 

Fear not the anger of the wise to raise ; 
Those best can bear reproof who merit praise. 

1482 Pope : E. on Criticism, Pt. iii., Line 23. 

Reproof on her lips, but a smile in her eye. 

1483 Lover : Rory O'More. 

Reputation. 

The purest treasure mortal times afford, 

Is spotless reputation ; that away, 

Men are but gilded loam, or painted clay. 

1484 Shaks. : Richard IL, Act i., Sc. 1. 

At every word a reputation dies. 

1485 Pope: R. of the Lock, Canto iii., Line 16. 

Resignation. 

But Heaven hath a hand in these events ; 

To whose high will we bound our calm contents. 

1486 Shaks. : Richard IL, Act v., Sc. 2. 



228 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

While Resignation gently slopes away, 

And all his prospects brightening to the last, 

His heaven commences ere the world be past. 

1487 Goldsmith : Des. Village, Line 110. 

Resolution. 

The native hue of resolution 
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought ; 
And enterprises of great pith and moment, 
AVith this regard, their currents turn awry, 
And lose the name of action. 

1488 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 1. 

Respect. 

You have too much respect upon the world : 
They lose it, that do buy it with much care. 

1489 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act i., Sc. 1. 

Rest. 

Who with a body filled and vacant mind 

Gets him to rest, crammed with distressful bread. 

1490 Shaks. : Henry V., Act iv., Sc. 1. 

Rest is sweet after strife. 

Owen Meredith : Lucile, Pt. i., Canto vi., 

1491 St. 25. 

For too much rest itself becomes a pain. 

1492 Pope : Odyssey, Bk. xv., Line 429. 

Results. 

Who soweth good seed shall surely reap ; 
The year grows rich as it groweth old ; 
And life's latest sands are its sands of gold. 

1493 Julia C. R. Dorr : To the Bouquet Club. 



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Retirement. 

Retiring from the popular noise, I seek 
This unfrequented place to find some ease. 

1494 Milton : Samson Agonistes, Line 16. 

O blest retirement, friend to life's decline, 
Retreats from care that never must be mine, 
How happy he who crowns, in shades like these, 
A youth of labor, with an age of ease; 
Who quits a world where strong temptations try, 
And, since 't is hard to combat, learns to fly. 

1495 Goldsmith : Des. Village, Line 97. 

Retreat. 

In all the trade of war, no feat 
Is nobler than a brave retreat ; 
For those that run away, and fly, 
Take place at least of the enemy. 

1496 Butler : Hudibras, Pt. i., Canto iii., Line 607. 

Revelry. 

Midnight shout and revelry, 
Tipsy dance and jollity. 

1497 Milton : Comus, Line 103. 

There was a sound of revelry by night, 

And Belgium's capital had gather'd then 

Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright 

The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men. 

1498 Byron : Ch. Harold, Canto iii., St. 21. 

Revenge. 

And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge, 
With Ate by his side, come hot from hell, 
Shall in these confines, with a monarch's voice, 
Cry "Havock," and let slip the dogs of war. 

1499 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar, Act iii., Sc. 1. 



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Revenge, at first though sweet, 
Bitter ere long, back on itself recoils. 

1500 Milton: Par. Lost, Bk. ix., Line 171. 

Vengeance to God alone belongs ; 
But, when I think of all my wrongs, 
My blood is liquid flame. 

1501 Scott : Marmion, Canto vi., St. 7. 

Reverence. 

Let the air strike our tune. 
Whilst we show reverence to yond peeping moon. 

1502 Middle-ton: The Witch, Act v., Sc. 2. 

Revolution. 

There is great talk of revolution, 
And a great chance of despotism, 
German soldiers, camps, confusion, 
Tumults, lotteries, rage, delusion. 
Gin, suicide, and Methodism. 

1503 Shelley : Peter Bell the Third, Hell St. 6. 

Rhetoric. 

For Rhetoric, he could not ope 

His mouth, but out there flew a trope. 

1501 Butler : Hudihras, Pt. i., Canto i., Line 8. 

Enjoy your dear wit and gay rhetoric, 

That hath so well been taught her dazzling fence. 

1505 Milton: Comus, Line 790. 

Rhine. 

The castled crag of Drachenfels 

Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine. 

1506 Byron : Ch. Harold, Canto iii., St. bo. 



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The river Rhine, it is well known, 

Doth wash your city of Cologne; 

But tell me. nymphs ! what power divine 

Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine? 

L507 Coleridge: Cologne. 

Rhyme. 

Still may syllables jar with time, 
Still may reason war with rhyme. 

150S Ben Joxson : Fit of Rhyme against Rhyme. 

He knew 
Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. 

1509 Milton: Lycidas, Line 10. 

For rhyme the rudder is of verses. 

With which, like ships, they steer their courses. 

1510 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. i.. Canto i., Line 463. 

Riches. 

Infinite riches in a little room. 

1511 Marlowe: The Jew of Malta, Act i. 

Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, 

The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare ; more apt 

To slacken virtue, and abate her edge, 

Than prompt her to do aught may merit praise. 

1512 Milton: Par. Regained, Bk. ii., Line 153. 

Ridicule. 

Ridicule is a weak weapon, when levelled at a strong 

mind ; 
But common men are cowards, and dread an empty 

laugh. 

1513 Tupper : Proverbial Phil., Of Ridicule. 



232 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, 
And the sad burden of some merry song. 

1514 Pope : Satire i., Bk. iL, Line 76. 

Right. 

But 't was a maxim he had often tried, 
That right was right, and there he would abide. 
Crabbe : Tales : Tale xv., The Squire and 

1515 the Priest. 

' For right is right, since God is God, 
And right the day must win ; 
To doubt would be disloyalty, 
To falter would be sin. 

Frederick W. Faber : The Right Must 

1516 Win. 

And spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, 
One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right. 

1517 Pope : Essay on Man, Epis. i., Line 289. 

Rivers. 

By shallow rivers, to whose falls 
Melodious birds sing madrigals. 

Marlowe : The Passionate Shepherd to 

1518 His Love. 

See the rivers, how they run, 
Changeless to the changeless sea. 

Charles Kingsley: Saint's Tragedy, 

1519 Act ii., Sc. 2. 

The river glideth at his own sweet will. 

Wordsworth : Earth has not anything to 

1520 shoiv more fair. 



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Robbery. 

I '11 example you with thievery : 
The sun 's a thief, and with his great attraction 
Robs the vast sea : the moon 's an arrant thief, 
And her pale tire she snatches from the sun ; 
The sea 'a a thief, whose liquid surge resolves 
The moon into salt tears ; the earth 's a thief, 
That feeds and breeds by a composture stolen 
From general excrement : each thing 's a thief. 

1521 Shaks.: Timon of A., Act iv., Sc. 3. 

Rock. 

Better to sink beneath the shock 
Than moulder piecemeal on the rock. 

1522 Byron : Giaour. Line 969. 

Rock of Ages, cleft for me, 
Let me hide myself in thee. 

1523 Toplady : Salvation through Christ. 

Come one. come all ! this rock shall fly 

From its firm base as soon as I. 

152-1 Scott : Lady of the Lake. Canto v.. St. 10. 

Rod. 

His rod revers'd. 
And backward mutters of dissevering power. 

1525 Miltox: Comus, Line 816. 

A light to guide, a rod 
To check the erring, and reprove. 

1526 Wordsworth: Ode to Duty. 

Roman. 

I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon. 
Than such a Roman. 

1527 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar, Act iv.. Sc. 3. 



234 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

This was the noblest Roman of them all. 

1528 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar, Act v., Sc. 5. 

Romance. 

Romances paint at full length people's wooings, 
But only give a bust of marriages. 

1529 Byron: Don Juan, Canto iii., St. 8. 

Lady of the Mere, 
Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance. 

Wordsworth : A Narrow Girdle of Rough 

1530 Stones and Crags. 

Rome. 

To the glory that was Greece 
And the grandeur that was Rome. 

1531 Edgar A. Poe : To Helen. 

Rose. 

At Christmas I no more desire a rose 

Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth ; 

But like of each thing that in season grows. 

1532 Shaks. : Love's L. Lost, Act i., Sc. 1. 

The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem, 
For that sweet odor which doth in it live. 

1533 Shaks. : Sonnet liv. 

You love the roses — so do I. I wish 

The sky would rain down roses, as they rain 

From off the shaken bush. 

1534 George Eliot : Spanish Gypsy, Bk. iii. 

As though a rose should shut, and be a bud again. 

1535 Keats : Eve of St. Agnes, St. 27. 



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The rose saith in the dewy morn, 
I am most fair ; 
Yet all my loveliness is born 
Upon a thorn. 

Christina G. Rossetti : Consider the 

1536 Lilies of the Field. 

Strew on her roses, roses, 

And never a spray of yew ! 
In quiet she reposes ; 

Ah, would that I did too. 

1537 - Matthew Arnold : Requiescat. 

Rousseau. 

The self-torturing sophist, wild Rousseau, 
The apostle of affliction — he, who threw 
Enchantment over passion, and from woe 
Wrung overwhelming eloquence. 

1538 Byron : Ch. Harold, Canto iii., St. 77. 

Royalty. 

O wretched state of Kings ! O doleful fate ! 
Greatness misnamed, in misery only great ! 
Could men but know the endless woe it brings, 
The wise would die before they would be Kings. 
Think what a King must do ! 

1539 R. H. Stoddard : The King's Bell. 

Ruin. 

Where my high steeples whilom used to stand, 
On which the lordly falcon wont to tower, 
There now is but an heap of lime and sand, 
For the screech-owl to build her baleful bower. 

1540 Spenser : Ruins of Time, Line 127. 



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On Prague's proud arch the fires of ruin glow, 
His blood-dyed waters murmuring far below. 

1541 Campbell : PL of Hope, Pt. L, Line 385. 

The day shall come, that great avenging day 
"Which Troy's proud glories in the dust shall lay, 
When Priam's powers and Priam's self shall fall, 
And one prodigious ruin swallow all. 

1542 Pope : Iliad, Bk. iv., Line 196. 

Ruling Passions. 

In men, we various Ruling Passions find ; 
In women, two almost divide the kind ; 
Those, only fix'd, they first or last obey, 
The love of pleasure and the love of sway. 

1543 Pope : Moral Essays, Epis. ii., Line 207. 

Rumor. 

Rumor is a pipe 
Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures ; 
And of so easy and so plain a stop 
That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, 
The still-discordant wavering multitude, 
Can play upon it. 

1544 Shaks. : Henry IV., Pt. ii., Induction. 

Rural Life. 

Of men 

The happiest he, who far from public rage, 
Deep in the vale, with a choice few retired, 
Drinks the pure pleasures of the rural life. 

1545 Thomson: Seasons, Autumn, Line 1132. 



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s. 

Sabbath. 

The Sabbath bell, 
That over wood, and wild, and mountain dell 
Wanders so far, chasing all thoughts unholy 
With sounds most musical, most melancholy. 

1546 Rogers : Human Life, Line 515. 

Yes, child of suffering, thou mayst well be sure 
He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor ! 

Oliver Wendell Holmes : .4 Rhymed 

1547 Lesson. Urania. 

E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath-day to me. 

1548 Pope: Epis. to Arbutknot, Line 12. 

Xor can his blessed soul look down from heaven, 
Or break the eternal sabbath of his rest. 

1549 Dryden : Spanish Friar, Act v., Sc. 2. 

The Sabbath brings its kind release, 
And Care lies slumbering on the lap of Peace. 
Oliver Wendell Holmes : A Rhymed 

1550 Lesson, Line 229. 

Take the Sunday with you through the week, 
And sweeten with it all the other days. 

1551 Longfellow : Michael Angelo, Pt. i., 5. 

Sailors. 

Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, 
Ready with every nod to tumble down. 

1552 Shaks. : Richard III., Act iii., Sc. 4. 



238 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

O Thou, who in thy hand dost hold 
The winds and waves that wake or sleep. 
Thy tender arms of mercy fold 
Around the seamen on the deep. 

1553 Hannah F. Gould : Changes on the Deep. 

Messmates, hear a brother sailor 
Sing the dangers of the sea. 

1554 George A. Stevens : The Storm. 

Sails. 

Purple the sails, and so perfumed that 
The winds were love-sick with them. 

1555 Shaks. : Ant. and Cleo., Act ii., Sc. 2. 

He that has sail'd upon the dark blue sea 

Has view'd at times, I ween, a full fail' sight ; 

When the fresh breeze is fair as breeze may be, 

The white sails set, the gallant frigate tight ; 

Masts, spires, and strand retiring to the right, 

The glorious main expanding o'er the bow, 

The convoy spread like wild swans in their flight. 

The dullest sailer wearing bravely now. 

So gayly curl the waves before each dashing prow. 

1556 Byron : Ch. Harold, Canto ii., St. 17. 

Saints. 

And now the saints began their reign, 
For which they 'd yearn'd so long in vain, 
And felt such bowel-hankerings, 
To see an empire, all of kings. 

Butler : Hudihras, Pt. iii.. Canto ii., 

1557 Line 237. 

For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; 
The worst of madmen is a saint run mad. 

1558 Pope: Satire iv., Line 26. 



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There is a land of pure delight, 
Where saints immortal reign. 

1559 Watts : Hymns and Spiritual Songs. 

Just men, by whom impartial laws were given ; 
And saints who taught and led the way to heaven. 
Tickell : On the Death of Mr. Addison, 

1560 Line 41. 

That saints will aid if men will call; 
For the blue sky bends over all. 

1561 Coleridge : Christabel, Conclusion to Pt. i. 

Salt. 

Alas ! you know the cause too well ; 
The salt is spilt, to me it fell. 

1562 Gay : Fables, Pt. i., Fable 37. 

Why dost thou shun the salt ? that sacred pledge, 
Which once partaken blunts the sabre's edge, 
Makes even contending tribes in peace unite, 
And hated hosts seem brethren to the sight. 

1563 Byron : Corsair, Canto ii., St. 4. 

Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar. 

1564 Pope : Odyssey, Bk. xi., Line 153. 

Salvation. 

About some act 
That has no relish of salvation in 't. 

1565 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 3. 

Therefore, Jew, 
Though justice be thy plea, consider this, 
That in the course of justice none of us 
Should see salvation. 

1566 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act iv., Sc. 1. 



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Sands. 

Come unto these yellow sands, 

And then take hands : 
Courtesied when you have, and kiss'd 

The wild waves whist. 

1567 Shaks. : Tempest Act i., Sc. 2 

Here are sand-, ignoble things, 
Dropt from the ruined sides of kings. 

Beaumont : On the Tombs of Westminster 

1568 Abbey. 

Satan. 

To whom the arch-enemy, 
And thence in heaven call'd Satan, — with bold 

words 
Breaking the horrid silence, thus began. 

1569 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. i., Line 81. 

For Satan finds some mischief still 
For idle hands to do. 

1570 Watts : Divine Songs, Song 20. 

And Satan trembles when he sees 
The weakest saint upon his knees. 

1571 Cowper : Exhortation to Prayer. 

Satiety. 

They surfeited with honey ; and began 

To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little 

More than a little is by much too much, 

1572 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV., Act iii., Sc. 2. 

With pleasure drugg'd he almost long'd for woe. 
And e'en for change of scene would seek the shades 
below. 

1573 Byron : Ch. Harold, Canto i., St. 6. 



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Satire. 

Satire 's my weapon, but I 'm too discreet 
To run a-niuck. and tilt at all I meet : 
I only wear it in a land of Hectors. 
Thieves, supercargoes, sharpers, and directors. 

1574 Pope : Satire i.. Line 69. 

Prepare for rhyme — I '11 publish, right or wrong ; 
Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. 

1575 Byron : Eng. Bards. Line 5. 

In general satire, every man perceives 

A slight attack, yet neither fears nor grieves. 

1576 Crab be : Advice, Line 24-1. 
Savage. 

I am as free as Nature first made man, 
Ere the base laws of servitude began. 
When wild in woods the noble savage ran. 

Drydex : Conquest of Granada.. Pt. i.. 

1577 Act L Sc. 1. 

Scandal. 

For greatest scandal waits on greatest state. 

157S Shaks. : Lucrece, Line 1006. 

You know 
That I do fawn on men. and hug them hard.. 
And after scandal them. 

1579 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar. Act i.. Sc. 2. 

The whole court melted into one wide whisper. 

And all lips were applied unto all ears ! 

The elder ladies' wrinkles curled much crisper 

As they beheld: the younger cast some leers 

On one another, and each lovely lisper 

Smiled as she talked the matter o'er : but tears 

Of rivalship rose in each clouded eye 

Of all the standing army that stood by. 

1580 Byron : Don Juan. Canto ix.. St. 78. 



242 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Scars. 

He jests at scars, that never felt a wound. 

1581 Shaks. : Rom. and Jul., Act ii., Sc. 2. 

Gashed with honorable scars, 
Low in Glory's lap they lie. 

1582 James Montgomery: Battle of Alexandria. 

Scenes. 

For wheresoe'er I turn my ravish'd eyes, 
Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise. 

1583 Addison : A Letter from Italy. 

Scepticism. 

Oh ! lives there, heaven ! beneath thy dread ex- 
panse, 
One hopeless, dark idolater of chance, 
Content to feed with pleasures unrefin'd, 
The lukewarm passions of a lowly mind ; 
Who mouldering earthward, 'reft of every trust, 
In joyless union wedded to the dust, 
Could all his parting energy dismiss, 
And call this barren world sufficient bliss? 

1584 Campbell : PL of Hope, Pt. ii., Line 295. 

Whatever sceptic could inquire for, 
For every why he had a wherefore. 

1585 Butler : Hudibras, Pt. i., Canto i., Line 131. 

Sceptre. 

His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, 

The attribute to awe and majesty, 

Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings. 

1586 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act iv., Sc. 1. 



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Scholar. 

He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; 
Exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading; 
Lofty and sour to them that loved him not. 
But to those men that sought him sweet as summer. 

1587 Shaks. : Henry VIII.. Act iv., Sc. 2. 

His locked, lettered, braw brass collar 
Showed him the gentleman and scholar. 

1588 Burns: The Tic a Dogs. 

The land of scholars and the nurse of arms. 

1559 Goldsmith : Traveller. Line 356. 

School. 

And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel 
And shining morning face, creeping like snail 
Unwillingly to school. 

1590 Shaks. : As You Like It, Act ii.. Sc. 7. 

Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way. 
With blossom'd furze unprofitable gay. 

There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule. 
The village master taught his little school; 
A man severe he was. and stern to view. — 
I knew him well, and every truant knew : 
Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace 
The day's disasters in his morning face. 

1591 Goldsmith : Des. Village. Line 193. 

Science. 

Trace science then, with modesty thy guide ; 

First strip off all her equipage of pride; 

Deduct what is but vanity, or dress, 

( hr learning's luxury, or idle: 

Or tricks to show the stretch of human brain. 

Mere curious pleasure, or ingenious pain : 



244 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Expunge the whole, or lop th' excrescent parts 

Of all our vices have created arts ; 

Then see how little the remaining sum 

Which serv'd the past, and must the times to come. 

1592 Pope : Essay on Man, Epis. ii., Line 43. 

O star-eyed Science ! hast thou wander'd there, 
To waft us home the message of despair ? 

1593 Campbell : PL of Hope, Pt. ii., Line 325. 

Scorn. 

Scorn at first, makes after-love the more. 

1594 Shaks. : Two Gent, of V., Act iii., Sc. 1. 

Alas ! to make me 
The fixed figure of the time, for scorn 
To point his slow and moving finger at. 

1595 Shaks. : Othello, Act iv., Sc. 2. 

So let him stand, through ages yet unborn, 
Fix'd statue on the pedestal of scorn ! 

1596 Byron: Curse of Minerva, Line 207. 

He hears, 
On all sides, from innumerable tongues, 
A dismal universal hiss, the sound 
Of public scorn. 

1597 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. x., Line 506. 

Scotland. 

Stands Scotland where it did ? 

1598 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act iv., Sc. 3. 

O Scotia ! my dear, my native soil ! 

For whom my warmest wish to heaven is sent ! 

Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil 

Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content. 

1599 Burns : Cotter's Saturday Night, St. 20. 



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It was a' for our rightftt' King 

We left fair Scotland's strand. 

1600 Burns: A f for our Rightfu 1 King. 

Scribblers. 

Laugh when I laugh. I seek no other fame. 
The cry is up, and scribblers are my game. 

1601 Byron : English Bards, Line 43. 

Scripture. 

'T is elder Scripture, writ by God's own hand, — 
Scripture authentic ! uncorrupt by man. 

1602 Young : Night Thoughts, Night ix.. Line 611. 

Sculpture. 

Sculpture is more divine, and more like Nature, 
That fashions all her works in high relief. 
And that is Sculpture. 

1603 Longfellow : Michael Angelo, Pt. :.. 

A sculptor wields 
The chisel, and the stricken marble grows 
To beauty. 
1601 William Cullen Bryant : Flood of Years. 

Sea. 

The rude sea grew civil at her song. 

And certain stars shot madly from their spheres 

To hear the sea-maid's music. 

1605 Shaks. : Mid. X. Dream, Act ii., Sc. 1. 

The sea ! the sea ! the open sea ! 

The blue, the fresh, the ever free ! 

Without a mark, without a bound. 

It runneth the earth's wide region round; 

It plays with the clouds : it mocks the skies : 

Or like a cradled creature lies. 

1606 Barry Cornwall : The Sea. 



246 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Broad based upon her people's will, 
And compassed by the inviolate sea. 

1607 Tennyson : To the Queen. 

'T was when the sea was roaring, 
With hollow blasts of wind, 
A damsel lay deploring, 
All on a rock reclin'd. 

1608 John Gay : What D' ye Call It, Act ii., Sc. 8. 

Sea-weed. 

A weary weed, toss'd to and fro, 
Drearily drench'd in the ocean brine, 
Soaring high and sinking low, 
Lashed along without will of mine, — 
Sport of the spoom of the surging sea, 
Flung on the foam afar and anear, 
Mark my manifold mystery, — 
Growth and grace in their place appear. 

1609 Cornelius G. Fenner : Gulf-Weed. 

Seasons. 

Perceiv'st thou not the process of the year, 
How the four seasons in four forms appear, 
Resembling human life in ev'ry shape they wear ? 
Spring first, like infancy, shoots out her head, 
With milky juice requiring to be fed : . . . 
Proceeding onward whence the year began, 
The Summer grows adult, and ripens into man. . . . 
Autumn succeeds, a sober, tepid age, 
Not froze with fear, nor boiling into rage ; . . . 
Last, Winter creeps along with tardy pace, 
Sour is his front, and furrowed is his face. 

Dryden : Of Pythagorean Phil. From 16th 

1610 Book Odd's Metamorphoses, Line 206. 



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With thee conversing I forget all time, 

All seasons, and their change, — all please alike. 

1611 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. iv., Line 639. 

Thus with the year 
Seasons return ; but not to me returns 
Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, 
Or sight of vernal bloom or summer's rose, 
Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine. 

1612 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. iii., Line 40. 

Seat. 

Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, 

Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook ! 

1613 Leigh Hunt : Politics and Poetics. 

Secrecy. 

Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck, 
Till thou applaud the deed. 

1614 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act iii., Sc. 2. 

I will believe 
Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know ; 
And so far will I trust thee. 

1615 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV., Act ii., Sc. 3. 

A secret in his mouth, 
Is like a wild bird put into a cage, 
Whose door no sooner opens, but 't is out. 

1616 Ben Jonson : Case is Altered, Act iii., Sc. 3. 

Sects. 

His liberal soul with every sect agreed, 
Unheard their reasons, he received their creed. 

1617 Crabbe : Tales, Convert, Line 45. 



248 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, 
But looks through Nature up to Nature's God. 

1618 Pope : Essay on Man, Epis. iv., Line 331. 

Security. 

You all know, security 
Is mortal's chiefest enemy. 

1619 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act iii., Sc. 5. 

Seed. 

The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree 
I planted ; they have torn me, and I bleed. 
I should have known what fruit would spring from 
such a seed. 

1620 Byron: Ch. Harold, Canto iv., St. 10. 

Self. 

None are so desolate but something dear, 

Dearer than self, possesses or possess'd 

A thought, and claims the homage of a tear. 

1621 Byron : Ch. Harold, Canto ii., St. 24. 

Selfishness. 

Despite those titles, power and pelf, 
The wretch, concentred all in self, 
Living, shall forfeit fair renown, 
And, doubly dying, shall go down 
To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, 
Unwept, unhonored, and unsung. 

Scott : Lay of the Last Minstrel, Canto vi., 

1622 St. 1. 

Self-Conceit. 

To observations which ourselves we make, 
We grow more partial for th' observer's sake. 

1623 Pope : Moral Essays, Epis. i., Line 2. 



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Self-Control. 

May I govern my passions with absolute sway. 
And grow wiser and better as my strength wears 

away, 
... by a gentle decay. 

Dr. Walter Pope: The Old Man's Wish. 
1621 Chorus. 

Self-Defence. 

Self-defence is a virtue. 
Sole bulwark of all right. 
16*25 ' Byron : Sardanapalus, Act ii., Sc. 1. 

Self-Denial. 

Brave conquerors ! for so you are. 
That war against your own affections. 
And the huge army of the world's desires. 

1626 Shaks. : Love's L. Lost, Act i.. Sc. 1. 

Self-Dispraise. 

There is a luxury in self-dispraise ; 
And inward self-disparagement affords 
To meditative spleen a grateful feast. 

1627 Wordsworth : The Excursion, Bk. iv. 

Self -Esteem. 

Oft times nothing profits more 
Than self-esteem, grounded on just and right 
Well manag'd. 
1623 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. viii.. Line 571. 

Self-Knowledge. 

To know thyself — in others self-concern; 
Would'st thou know others? read thyself — and 
learn ! 

1629 Schiller : Votive Tablets, The Key. 



250 DICTIOXARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Self-Love. 

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin 
As self-neglecting. 

1630 Shaks. : Henry V., Act ii., Sc. L 

Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul ; 
Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. 

1631 Pope : Essay on Man, Epis. ii., Line 59. 

Self-Reproach. 

Men who can hear the Decalogue, and feel 
Xo self-reproach. 

1632 AYordsworth : The Old Cumberland Beggar, 

Self-Respect. 

He that respects himself is safe from others ; 
He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. 

1633 Longfellow : Michael Angelo, Pt. ii. 

Self-Sacrifice. 

Give unto me, made lowly wise, 
The spirit of self-sacrifice. 

1634 Wordsworth : Ode to Duty. 

Sense. 

A man wmose blood 
Is very snow-broth ; one who never feels 
The wanton stings and motions of the sense. 

1635 Shaks. : M. for M., Act i., Sc. 4. 

Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, 
And though no science, fairly worth the seven. 

1636 Pope: Moral Essays. Epis. iv., Line 13. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 251 

Sensibility. 

Our sensibilities are so acute, 

The fear of being silent makes us mute. 

1G37 Cowper : Conversation, Line 351. 

Sweet sensibility ! thou keen delight ! 

Unprompted moral! sudden sense of right! 

1G38 Hannah More : Sensibility, Line 227. 

Separation. 

Thy soul . . . 
Is as far from my grasp, is as free, 
As the stars from the mountain -tops be, 
As the pearl in the depths of the sea, 
From the portionless king that would wear it. 

1639 E. C. Stedman: Stanzas for Mu'sic, St. 3. 

September. 

September waves his golden-rod 

Along the lanes and hollows, 
And saunters round the sunny fields 

A-playing with the swallows. 

1640 Ellen Mackay Hutchinson : The Prince. 

Sermons. 

Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, 
Sermons in stones, and good in everything. 

1641 Shaks. : As You Like It, Act ii., Sc. 1. 

Perhaps it may turn out a sang, 
Perhaps turn out a sermon. 

1642 Burns : Epistle to a Young Friend. 

Serpent. 

What ! would'st thou have a serpent sting thee 
twice V 

1643 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act iv., Sc. 1. 



252 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Where 's my serpent of old Nile ? 

1644 Shaks. : Ant. and Cleo., Act i., Sc. 5. 

And hence one master-passion in the breast, 

Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest. 

1615 Pope : Essay on Man, Epis. ii., Line 131. 

Some flow'rets of Eden ye still inherit, 

But the trail of the Serpent is over them all. 
1646 Moore : Paradise and the Peri. 

Service. 

Ful wel she sange the service devine, 
Entuned in hire nose ful swetely. 

Chaucer : Canterbury Tales, Prologue. 
1617 Line 122. 

And ye shall succor men ; 

'T is nobleness to serve ; 

Help them who cannot help again : 

Beware from right to swerve. 

1648 Emersox : Boston Hymn, St. 13. 

Sex. 

Think you I am no stronger than my sex, 
Being so father'd and so husbanded? 

1649 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar, Act ii., Sc. 1. 

Spirits when they please 
Can either sex assume, or both. 

1650 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. i., Line 423. 

Sexton. 

See yonder maker of the dead man's bed, 

The sexton, hoary-headed chronicle ! 

Of hard, unmeaning face, down which ne'er stole 

A gentle tear ; with mattock in his hand, 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 253 

Digs thro' whole rows of kindred and acquaintance 
By far his juniors ! Scarce a skull 's cast up 
But well he knew its owner, and can tell 
Some passage of his life. 

1651 Blair : The Grave, Line 452. 

His death, which happened in his berth, 

At forty-odd befell : 
They went and told the sexton, and 

The sexton tolled the bell. 

1652 Hood : Faithless Sally Brown. 

Shadow. 

Shine out, fair sun, till I have bought a glass, 
That I may see my shadow as I pass. 

1653 Shaks. : Richard III., Act i., Sc. 2. 

Syene, and where the shadow both way falls, 
Meroe, Nilotic isle. 

1654 Milton : Par. Regained, Bk. iv., Line 70. 

Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, 
Our fatal shadows that walk by us still. 

John Fletcher : Upon an " Honest 

1655 Man's Fortune." 

Shaft. 

In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft, 
I shot his fellow of the selfsame flight 
The selfsame way, with more advised watch, 
To find the other forth ; and by adventuring both 
1 oft found both. 

1656 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act i., Sc. 1. 



254 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

That eagle's fate and mine are one, 
Which on the shaft that made him die 

Espied a feather of his own. 

Wherewith he wont to soar so high. 

Waller : To a Lady Singing a Song of 

1657 his Composing. 

Shakespeare. 

Soul of the age ! 
Th' applause ! delight ! the wonder of our stage ! 
My Shakespeare, rise ! I will not lodge thee by 
Chancer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie 
A little further, to make thee room ; 
Thou art a monument, without a tomb, 
And art alive still, while thy book doth live, 
And we have wits to read, and praise to give. 

Ben Jonson : Underwoods, To the Mem. 

1658 of Shakespeare. 

There, Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb 
The crowns o' the world. Oh, eyes sublime, 
With tears and laughters for all time ! 

1659 Mrs. Browning: Vision of Poets, St. 101. 

Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, 
Warble his native wood-notes wild. 

1660 Milton : U Allegro, Line 129. 

What needs my Shakespeare for his honor'd 

bones, — 
The labor of an age in piled stones ? 
Or that his hallow 'd relics should be hid 
Under a star-y-pointing pyramid? 
Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, 
What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name? 

1661 Milton : On Shakespeare. 



DICTIONARY OF POETI-AL QUOTATIONS. 265 

Shame. 

< K shame ! where is thy blush? 

1662 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 4. 

But neath yon crimson tree 
Lover to listening maid might breathe his flame. 
Nor mark, within its roseate canopy. 

Her blush of maiden shame. 

1663 William Cullex Bryant : A utumn Woods. 

Shape. 

Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves 

Shall never tremble. 

1661 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act iii., Sc. 1. 

The other shape, 
If shape it might be call'd that shape had none 
Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb. 
1 .'■: Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. ii., Line 681. 

Shell. 

I have seen 
A. curious child, who dwelt upon a tract 
Of inland ground, applying to his ear 
The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell, 
To which, in silence hushed, his very soul 
Listened intensely. 
1666 Wordsworth : The Excursion, Bk. iv. 

Shelley. 

Ah, did you once see Shelley plain. 

And did he stop and speak to you, 
And did you speak to him again ? 
How strange it seems, and new ! 

Robert Browning : Memorabilia, i. 



256 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Sheridan. 

Long shall we seek his likeness — long in vain, 
And turn to all of him which may remain, 
Sighing that nature form'd but one such man, 
And broke the die — in moulding Sheridan. 

1668 Byron : Monody on the Death of Sheridan. 

Shield. 

When Prussia hurried to the field, 

And snatch'd the spear, but left the shield. 

1669 Scott : Marmion, Introduction to Canto iii. 

Ships. 

Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships, 
And burnt the topless towers of Ilium ? 

1670 Marlowe: Faustus. 

Like sister sails that drift at night 
Together on the deep, 
Seen only where they cross the light 
That pathless waves must pathlike keep 
From fisher's signal fire, or pharos steep. 

1671 Ruskin : The Broken Chain, Pt. v., St. 25. 

She walks the waters like a thing of life, 
And seems to dare the elements to strife. 

1672 Byron : Corsair, Canto i., St. 3. 

As idle as a painted ship 
Upon a painted ocean. 

1673 Coleridge : The Ancient Mariner, Pt. ii. 

Shipwreck. 

O, I have suffer'd 
With those that I saw suffer ! a brave vessel, 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 257 

Who had no doubt some noble creature in her, 
Dash'd all to pieces. O, the cry did knock 
Against my very heart ! poor souls ! they perish'd. 

1674 Shaks. : Tempest, Act i., Sc. 2. 

Again she plunges ! hark! a second shock 
Bilges the splitting Vessel on the Rock — 
Down on the vale of death, with dismal cries 
The fated victims shuddering cast their eyes, 
In wild despair ; while yet another stroke, 
With strong convulsion rends the solid oak : 
Ah Heaven ! — behold her crashing ribs divide ! 
She loosens, parts, and spreads in ruin o'er the Tide. 

1675 Falconer : Shipwreck, Canto iii., Line 612. 

Shoes. 

I saw them go : one horse was blind, 
The tails of both hung down behind, 
Their shoes were on their feet. 

James Smith : Rejected Addresses, The 

1676 Baby's Debut. 

Let firm, well-ham mer'd soles protect thy feet, 
Thro' freezing snows, and rain, and soaking sleet. 

1677 Gay : Trivia, Bk. i., Line 33. 

Shore. 

But the poor, unsightly, noisome things 

Had left their beauty on the shore, 

With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar. 

1678 Emerson : Each and AIL 

There is a rapture on the lonely shore ; 
There is society, where none intrudes, 
By the deep sea, and music in its roar. 

1679 Byron: Ch. Harold, Canto iv., St. 178. 



258 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

A strong nor'wester 's blowing, Bill ! 

Hark ! don't ye hear it roar now ? 
Lord help 'em, how I pities them 

Unhappy folks on shore now ! 

1680 William Pitt : The Sailor's Consolation. 

Show. 

Live to be the show and gaze o' the time. 

1681 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act v., Sc. 8. 

With books and money plac'd for show 
Like nest-eggs to make clients lay, 
And for his false opinion pay. 

Butler : Hudibras, Pt. iii., Canto iii., 

1682 Line 624. 

Shrine. 

What sought they thus afar? 

Bright jewels of the mine, 
The wealth of seas, the spoils of war? 

They sought a faith's pure shrine. 

1683 Hemans : Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers. 

Sickness. 

This sickness doth infect 
The very life-blood of our enterprise. 

1684 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV., Act iv., Sc. 1. 

Sighs. 

My story being done, 
She gave me for my pains a world of sighs. 

1685 Shaks. : Othello, Act i., Sc. 3. 

He sighed ; — the next resource is the full moon, 
Where all sighs are deposited; and now 
It happen'd luckily, the chaste orb shone. 

1686 Byron : Don Juan, Canto xvi., St. 13. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 259 

Sight. 

Visions of glory, spare my aching sight 
Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul ! 

1687 Gray : The Bard, Pt. iii., St. 1. 

Christ ! it is a goodly sight to see 

What Heaven hath done for this delicious land. 

1688 Byron : Ch. Harold, Canto i., St. 15. 

Signs. 

Sometime we see a cloud that 's dragonish : 

A vapor, sometime, like a bear, or lion, 

A tower'd citadel, a pendent rock, 

A forked mountain, or blue promontory 

With trees upon % that nod unto the world, 

And mock our eyes with air : thou hast seen these 

signs ; 
They are black vesper's pageants. 

1689 Shaks. : Ant. and Cleo., Act iv., Sc. 12. 

Silence. 

Silence is the perfectest herald of joy : 

1 were but little happy, if I could say how much. 

1690 Shaks. : Much Ado, Act ii., Sc. 1. 

Silence in love bewrays more woe 
Than words, tho' ne'er so witty ; 
A beggar that is dumb, you know, 
May challenge double pity. 

1691 Sir Walter Raleigh : Silent Lover, St. 6. 

Silence more musical than any song. 

1692 Christina G. Rossetti : Rest. 



260 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Silence accompany'd ; for beast and bird, 
They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, 
Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; 
She all night long her amorous descant sung; 
Silence was pleas'd. 

1693 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. iv., Line 598. 



There was silence deep as death, • 
And the boldest held his breath 
For a time. 

1694 Campbell : Battle of the Baltic. 



There is a silence where hath been no sound, 
There is a silence where no sound may be, — 
In the cold grave, under the deep, deep sea, 
Or in the wide desert where no life is found. 

1695 Hood : Sonnet, Silence. 

Silver. 

Lady, by yonder blessed moon I swear, 
That tips with silver all these fruit-tree tops. 

1696 Shaks. : Rom. and Jul., Act ii., Sc. 2. 

Similarity. 

Like will to like : each creature loves his kind, 
Chaste words proceed still from a bashful mind. 

1697 Herrick: A ph. Like Loves His Like. 

Simplicity. 

And simple truth miscall'd simplicity, 
And captive good attending captive ill. 

1698 Shaks. : Sonnet lxvi. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 261 

Rich in saving common-sense, 
And, as the greatest only are. 
In his simplicity sublime. 

Tennyson : Ode on the Death of the Duke 

1699 of Wellington, St. 4. 

Sin. 

Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin, 
Unhousell'd, disappointed, unaneled. 

1700 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 5. 



One sin, I know, another doth provoke ; 
Murder 's as near to lust, as flame to smoke. 

1701 Shaks. : Pericles, Act i., Sc. 1. 



In lashing sin, of every stroke beware, 

For sinners feel, and sinners you must spare. 

1702 Crabbe : Tales, Advice, Line 242. 

But sad as angels for the good man's sin, 
Weep to record, and blush to give it in. 

1703 Campbell : PL of Hope, Pt. ii., Line 357. 

I waive the quantum o' the sin, 

The hazard of concealing ; 
But, och ! it hardens a' within, 

And petrifies the feeling ! 

1704 Burns : Epistle to a Young Friend. 

Compound for sins they are inclined to, 
By damning those they have no mind to. 

1705 Butler ; Hudibras, Pt. i., Canto i., Line 215. 



262 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Sincerity. 

I never tempted her with word too large, 
But, as a brother to his sister, show'd 
Bashful sincerity and comely love. 

1706 Shaks. : Much Ado, Act iv., Sc. 1. 

His nature is too noble for the world : 

He would not natter Xeptune for his trident, 

Or Jove for 's power to thunder. His heart 's his 

mouth : 
What his breast forges that his tongue must vent. 

1707 Shaks. : Coriolanus, Act iii., Sc. 1. 

Singing. 

But in his motion like an angel sings, 
Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubims. 

1708 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act v., Sc. 1. 

Sing, seraph with the glory ! heaven is high. 
Sing, poet with the sorrow ! earth is low. 
The universe's inward voices cry 
"Amen " to either song of joy and woe. 
Sing, seraph, poet ! sing on equally ! 

1709 Mrs. Browning: Sonnets, Seraph and Poet. 

I send my heart up to thee, all my heart 

In this my singing ! 

For the stars help me, and the sea bears part. 

1710 Robert Browning : In a Gondola. 

I do but sing because I must, 

And pipe but as the linnets sing. 

1711 Tennyson : In Memoriam, Pt. xxi., St. 6. 

Song forbids victorious deeds to die. 

1712 Schiller: Artists, St. 11. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 263 

Singularity. 
No two on earth in all things can agree ; 
All have some darling singularity. 

1713 Churchill : Apology, Line 402. 

Sister. 

Oh, never say hereafter 
But I am truest speaker. You calPd me brother 
When I was but your sister. 

1714 Shaks. : Cymbeline, Act v., Sc. 5. 

Skill. 

How happy is he born or taught, 

That serveth not another's will ; 
Whose armor is his honest thought, 

And simple truth his utmost skill ! 

1715 Wotton : Character of a Happy Life. 

Skull. 

Look on its broken arch, its ruined wall, 
Its chambers desolate, its portals foul ; 
Yes, this was once ambition's airy hall, 
The dome of thought, the palace of the soul. 

1716 Byron: Ch. Harold, Canto ii., St. 6. 

Sky. 

Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, 
And souls are ripened in our northern sky. 

1717 Mrs. Barbauld : The Invitation. 

The sky is changed, — and such a change. O night 
And storm and darkness ! ye are wondrous strong, 
Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light 
Of a dark eye in woman ! 

1718 Byron : Ch. Harold, Canto iii., St. 92. 



264 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Slander. 

Slanderous reproaches, and foul infamies, 
Leasings, backbitings, and vainglorious crakes, 
Bad counsels, praises, and false flatteries ; 
All those against that fort did bend their batteries. 
Spenser: Faerie Queene, Bk. ii., Canto xi., 

1719 St. 10. 

'T is slander, 
Whose edge is sharper than the sword : whose 

tongue 
Outvenoms all the worms of Nile ; whose breath 
Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie 
All corners of the world, — kings," queens, and 

states, 
Maids, matrons, — nay, the secrets of the grave 
This viperous slander enters. 

1720 Shaks. : Cymbeline, Act iii., Sc. 4. 

'T was slander filled her mouth with lying words, — 
Slander, the foulest whelp of sin. 

1721 Pollok : Course of Time, Bk. viii., Line 715. 

Slave — Slavery. 

Thou art a slave, whom Fortune's tender arm 
With favor never clasp'd : but bred a dog. 

1722 Shaks. : Timon of A., Act iv., Sc. 3. 

He finds his fellow guilty of a skin 
Xot color'd like his own, and having pow'r 
T' enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause 
Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey. 

1723 CowpePv : Task, Bk. ii., Line 12. 

Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves. 

1724 David Garrick : Prologue to the Gamesters. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 265 

Whatever day 
Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away. 

1725 Pope : Odyssey, Bk. xvii., Line 392. 

Sleep. 

We are such stuff 
As dreams are made on ; and our little life 
Is rounded with a sleep. 

1726 Shaks. : Tempest, Act iv., Sc. 1. 

Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, 
The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, 
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, 
Chief nourisher in life's feast. 

1727 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act ii., Sc. 2. 

Come, sleep, O sleep ! the certain knot of peace, 
The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe; 
The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, 
The impartial judge between the high and low. 
Sir Philip Sidney : Astrophel and Stella, 

1728 St, 39. 

Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep ! 

He, like the world, his ready visit pays 

Where fortune smiles — the wretched he forsakes. 

1729 Young : Night Thoughts, Night L, Line 1. 

O magic sleep ! O comfortable bird 

That broodest o'er the troubled sea of the mind 

Till it is hush'd and smooth ! 

1730 Keats : Endymion, Line 456. 

Sleep hath its own world, 
A boundary between the things misnamed 
Death and existence : Sleep hath its own world, 
And a wide realm of wild reality. 

1731 Byron : Dream, Line 1. 



266 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Sleep the sleep that knows riot breaking. 
Morn of toil, nor night of waking. 

1732 Scott : Lady of the Lake. Canto i.. St. 31. 

Of all the thoughts of God that are 
Borne inward into souls afar. 
Along the Psalmist's music deep. 
Xow tell me if that any is, 
For gift or grace, surpassing this — 
M He giveth His beloved sleep " ? 

1733 Mrs. Browning : Sleep. 

Be thy sleep 
Silent as night is, and as deep. 

Longfellow: Chris tus, Golden Leg 

1734 Ft. ii. 

Sleep will bring thee dreams in starry number — 
Let him come to thee and be thy guest. 

1735 Aytoux : Bet 

Sloth. 

Sloth views the towers of Fame with envious eyes, 
Desirous still, but impotent to rise. 

1736 Shenbtone: Moral Pieces. 

Sluggard. 

T is the voice of the sluggard : I heard him com- 
plain. 

" You have waked me too soon. I must slumber 
again." 

1737 Watt-: The Sluggard. 

Smiles. 

One may smile, and smile, and be a villain. 

1738 Shaks. : Bandet, Act L, Sc. 5. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 2G7 

With the smile thai was childlike and bland. 

Bret Harte : Plain Language from 

1739 Truthful James. 

Death 
Grinn'd horrible a ghastly smile, to hear 
His famine should be rilled. 

1740 Milton: Par. Lost, Bk. ii., Line 845. 

Without the smile from partial beauty won, 
Oh what were man? — a world without a sun. 
17-41 Campbell : PI. of Hope. Ft. ii., Line 21. 

Even children follow'd with endearing wile, 
And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's 
smile. 

1742 Goldsmith: Des. Village. Line 183. 

Smoke. 

I knew, by the smoke that so gracefully cmTd 
Above the green elms, that a cottage was near. 

1743 Moore : Ballad Stanzas. 

Snail. 

The snail, whose tender horns being hit, 
Shrinks backward in his shelly cave with pain, 
And there, all smother'd up in shade, doth sit. 
Long after fearing to creep forth again. 

1744 Shaks. : Venus and A., Line 1033. 

Snake. 

We have scotch'd the snake, not kill'd it ; 
She '11 close, and be herself ; whilst our poor malice 
Remains in danger of her former tooth. 

1745 Shaks.: Macbeth. Act iii., Sc. 2. 



268 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Snow. 

Or wallow naked in December snow 

By thinking on fantastic summer's heat ? 

1746 Shaks. : Richard II., Act i., Sc. 3. 

A cheer for the snow — the drifting snow ; 
Smoother and purer than Beauty's brow ; 
The creature of thought scarce likes to tread 
On the delicate carpet so richly spread. 

1747 Eliza Cook: Snow. 

Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, 
Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields, 
Seems nowhere to alight : the whited air 
Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven. 

1748 Emerson: The Snow-Storm. 

Snow-Drop. 

The snow-drop, who, in habit white and plain, 
Comes on, the herald of fair Flora's train. 

1749 Churchill : Gotham, Bk. i., Line 245. 

Snuff. 

When they talked of their Raphaels, Correggios, 

and stuff, 
He shifted his trumpet and only took snuff. 

1750 Goldsmith : Retaliation, Line 145. 

Lady, accept the gift a hero wore 

In spite of all this elegiac stuff ; 
Let not seven stanzas written by a bore 

Prevent your ladyship from taking snuff. 

1751 Byron : Lines to Lady Holland. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 269 

Society. 

Man in society is like a flower 

Blown in its native bed ; 't is there alone 

His faculties expanded in full bloom 

Shine out ; there only reach their proper use. 

1752 Cowper : Task, Bk. iv., Line 659. 

Society became my glittering bride, 
And airy hopes my children. 

1753 Wordsworth : Excursion, Bk. iii. 

Soldier. 

A soldier ; 
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard, 
Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel, 
Seeking the bubble reputation 
Even in the cannon's mouth. 

1751 Shaks. : As You Like It, Act ii., Sc. 7. 

And but for these vile guns, 
He would himself have been a soldier. 

1755 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV., Act i., Sc. 3. 

The broken soldier, kindly bade to stay, 
Sat by his tire, and talk'd the night away ; 
Wept o'er his wounds, or. tales of sorrow done. 
Shoulder d his crutch, and show'cl how fields were 
won. 

1756 Goldsmith : Des. Village, Line 155. 

How shall we rank thee upon glory's page, 
Thou more than soldier, and just less than sage? 

1757 Moore : To Thomas Hume. 



270 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Solitude. 

Solitude sometimes is best society, 

And short retirement urges sweet return. 

1758 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. ix., Line 249. 

O solitude ! where are the charms 
That sages have seen in thy face ? 
Better dwell in the midst of alarms, 
Than reign in this horrible place. 

Cowper : Verses supposed to he written by 

1759 Alex. Selkirk. St. 1. 

Man dwells apart, though not alone, 

He walks among his peers unread ; 

The best of thoughts which he hath known, 

For lack of listeners are not said. 

Jean Ingelow : Afternoon at a Parsonage. 

1760 Afterthought. 

It was a wild and lonely ride. 

Save the hid loon's mocking cry, 
Or marmot on the mountain side, 

The earth was silent as the sky. 

1761 Hamlin Garland : The Long Trail. 

Son. 

Thence to be wrench'd with an unlineal hand, 
No son of mine succeeding. 

1762 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act iii.. Sc. 1. 



The booby father craves a booby son, 

And by Heaven's blessing thinks himself undone. 

1763 Young: Love of Fame, Satire ii., Line 165. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 271 

Song. 

And heaven had wanted one immortal song. 

Dryden : Absalom and Achitophel, Pt. i., 
1761 Line 197. 

That not in fancy's maze he wander 'd long, 
But stoop'd to truth, and moraliz'd his song. 
17(35 Pope : Prologue to the Satires, Line 310. 

For dear to gods and men is sacred song. 
Self-taught I sing ; by Heaven, and Heaven alone, 
The genuine seeds of poesy are sown. 

1766 Pope : Odyssey, Bk. xxii., Line 382. 

Sonnet. 

Scorn not the sonnet. Critic, you have frowned, 
Mindless of its just honors ; with this key 
Shakespeare unlocked his heart. 

1767 Wordsworth : Scorn not the Sonnet. 

Sorrow. 

Give sorrow words : the grief that does not speak 
Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break. 

1768 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act iv., Sc. 3. 

One sorrow never comes, but brings an heir, 
That may succeed as his inheritor. 

1769 Shaks. : Pericles, Act i., Sc. 1. 

Xothing comes to us too soon but sorrow. 

1770 Bailey : Festus, Sc. Home. 

This is truth the poet sings, 
That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering 
happier things. 

1771 Tennysox : Locksley Hall, St. 38. 



272 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Soul. 

But whither went his soul, let such relate 
Who search the secrets of the future state. 

Dryden : Palamon and Arcite, Bk. iii., 

1772 Line 2120. 

It is the Soul's prerogative, its fate 
To shape the outward to its own estate. 

1773 R. H. Dana: Thoughts on the Soul. 

The gods approve 
The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul. 

1774 Wordsworth : Laodamia. 

Sound. 

'T is not enough no harshness gives offence, — 
The sound must seem an echo to the sense. 

1775 Pope : E. on Criticism, Pt. ii., Line 162. 

Spain. 

Fair land ! of chivalry the old domain, 
Land of the vine and olive, lovely Spain ! 

Mrs. Hemans : Abencerrage, Canto ii., 

1776 Line 1. 

Spear. 

His spear, to equal which the tallest pine 
Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast 
Of some great ammiral were but a wand. 

1777 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. i., Line 292. 

Speech. 

Kude am I in my speech 
And little bless'd with the soft phrase of peace. 

1778 Shaks. : Othello, Act i., Sc. 3. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 273 

Speech is but broken light upon the depth 
Of the unspoken ; even your loved words 
Float in the larger meaning of your voice 
As something dimmer. 

1779 George Eliot : Spanish Gypsy, Bk. 1. 

Spenser. 

Nor shall my verse that elder bard forget, 
The gentle Spenser, fancy's pleasing son ; 
Who, like a copious river, poured his song 
O'er all the mazes of enchanted ground. 

1780 Thomson : Seasons, Summer, Line 1574. 

Spires. 

Ye swelling hills and spacious plains ! 

Besprent from shore to shore with steeple towers, 

And spires whose " silent finger points to heaven." 

-1781 Wordsworth : Excursion, Bk. vi., Line 17. 

Spirits. 

I can call spirits from the vasty deep. 

Why, so can I ; or so can any man : 

But will they come, when you do call for them ? 

1782 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV., Act iii., Sc. 1. 

Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth 
Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep. 

1783 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. iv., Line 677. 

Splendor. 

Though nothing can bring back the hour 

Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower. 

Wordsworth: Intimations of Immortality, 

1784 St. 10. 



274 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Sport. 

Thick around 
Thunders the sport of those, who with the gun 
And dog, impatient bounding at the shot, 
Worse than the season desolate the fields. 

1785 Thomson : Seasons, Winter, Line 788. 

Spring. 

In the spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd 

dove; 
In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to 

thoughts of love. 

1786 Tennyson : Locksley Hall, Line 19. 

Come, gentle Spring, ethereal mildness, come ; 
And from the bosom of your dropping cloud, 
While music wakes around, veiled in a shower 
Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend. 

1787 Thomson: Seasons, Spring, Line 1. 

" Come, gentle Spring ! ethereal mildness, come ! " — 
Oh ! Thomson, void of rhyme as well as reason, 
How could'st thou thus poor human nature hum? 
There 's no such season. 

1788 Hood : Spring. 

Stage. 

All the world's a stage, 
And all the men and women merely players, 
They have their exits and their entrances ; 
And one man in his time plays many parts, 
His acts being seven ages. 

1789 Shaks. : As You Like It, Act ii., Sc. 7. 

Stars. 

Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere. 

1790 Shaks. : 1 Henri/ IV., Act v., Sc. 4. 



DICTIONARY 09 POETICAL QUOTATCON& 275 

The stars of the night 

Will lend thee their light. 

Like tapers clear without number ! 

1791 Herrick: Aph. Night Piece, To J 

Ye -tars ! which are the poetry of Heaven, 

If in your bright leaves we would read the fate 

Of men and empire-. — 't is to be forgiven, 

That in our aspirations to be great. 

Our destinies o'erleap their mortal state, 

And claim a kindred with you. 

1702 Byron: Ch. Harold, Canto iii., St. 88. 

Xow only here and there a little star 
Looks forth alone. 

William Cuixen Bryant : The Con- 
1793 stellations. 

State. 

A thousand years scarce serve to form a state : 

An hour may lay it in the dust. 

179-1 Byron: Ch. Harold, Canto ii, St 84. 

Statesman. 

An honest statesman to a prince, 
Is like a cedar planted by a spring: 
The spring bathes the tree's root, the grateful tree 
Rewards it with his shadow. 
1795 Webster : Duel t ~. Act iii.. Sc. _. 

Steed. 

Hurrah, hurrah for Sheridan ! 

Hurrah, hurrah for horse and man ! 

And when their statues are placed on high, 

Under the dome of the Union sky. — 

The American soldier's Temple of Fame, — 

There with the o-l rious General's name 



276 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Be it said in letters both bold and bright : 
"Here is the steed that saved the day 
By carrying Sheridan into the fight, 
From Winchester, — twenty miles away ! " 

1796 Thomas Buchanan Read : Sheridan's Ride. 

Stones. 

Put a tongue 
In every wound of Csesar that should move 
The stones of Borne to rise and mutiny. 

1797 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar, Act iii., Sc. 2. 

Storms. 

We often see, against some storm, 
A silence in the heavens, the rack stand still, 
The bold winds speechless, and the orb below 
As hush as death. 

1798 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act ii., Sc. 2. 

God moves in a mysterious way 

His wonders to perform ; 
He plants his footsteps in the sea 

And rides upon the storm. 

1799 Cowper : Light Shining out of Darkness. 

Nail to the mast her holy flag, 

Set every threadbare sail, 
And give her to the god of storms, 

The lightning and the gale ! 

1800 Oliver Wendell Holmes : Old Ironsides. 

Story. 

Her father loved me ; oft invited me ; 
Still question'd me the story of my life, 
From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortune , 
That I have passed. 

1801 Shaks. : Othello, Act i., Sc. 3. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 277 

She thank'd me, 
And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her, 
I should but teach him how to tell my story, 
And that would woo her. 

1802 Shaks. : Othello, Act i., Sc. 3. 

Strangers. 

By foreign hands thy dying eyes were clos'd, 
By foreign hands thy decent limbs compos'd, 
By foreign hands thy humble grave adorn'd, 
By strangers honored, and by strangers mourn'd. 

Pope : To the Memory of an Unfortunate 

1803 Lady, Line 51. 

Streets. 

The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead 
Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets. 

1804 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 1. 

Strength. 

O, it is excellent 
To have a giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous 

To use it like a giant. 

1805 Shaks. : M. for M., Act ii., Sc. 2. 

To be strong 
Is to be happy ! 

Longfellow : Christus, Golden Legend, 

1806 Pt. ii. 

Strife. 

No fears to beat away, no strife to heal, — 
The past unsighed for, and the future sure. 

1807 Wordsworth : Laodamia. 



278 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Striving. 

How far your eyes may pierce I cannot tell ; 
Striving to better, oft we mar what 's well. 

1808 Shaks. : King Lear, Act i., Sc. 4. 

Study. 

Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, 
That will not be deep-search'd with saucy looks ; 
Small have continual plodders ever won, 
Save base authority from others' books. 

1809 Shaks. : Love's L. Lost, Act i., Sc. 1. 

If not to some peculiar end design'd 
Study 's the specious trifling of the mind, 
Or is at best a secondary aim, 
A chase for sport alone, and not for game. 

1810 Young: Love of Fame, Satire ii., Line 67. 

Style. 

The lives of trees lie only in the barks, 
And in their styles the wit of greatest clerks. 

Butler : Sat. on Abuse of Human Learning, 

1811 Line 211. 

Success. 

Didst thou never hear 

That things ill got had ever bad success ? 

1812 Shaks. : 3 Henry VL, Act ii., Sc. 2. 

Life lives only in success. 

1813 Bayard Taylor : Amrarts Wooing, St. 5. 

'T is not in mortals to command success ; 

But we '11 do more, Sempronius — we '11 deserve it. 

1814 Addison : Cato, Act i., Sc. 2. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 279 

Suffering. 

Yet tears to human suffering are due ; 
And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown 
Are mourned by man, and not by man alone. 

1815 Wordsworth : Laodamia. 

Suicide. 

Why, he that cuts off twenty years of life 
Cuts off so many years of fearing death. 

1816 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar, Act iii., Sc. 1. 

— He 

That kills himself to avoid misery, fears it ; 
And at the best shows but a bastard valor. 

1817 Massinger : Maid of Honor, Act iv., Sc. 3. 

Summer. 

Eternal summer gilds them yet, 
But all except their sun is set. 

1818 Byron : Don Juan, Canto iii., St. 86. 1. 

It is a sultry day ; the sun has drunk 
The dew that lay upon the morning grass ; 
There is no rustling in the lofty elm 
That canopies my dwelling, and its shade 
Scarce cools me. All is silent, save the faint 
And interrupted murmur of the bee, 
Settling on the sick flowers, and then again 
Instantly on the wing. 

1819 William Cullen Bryant : Summer Wind. 

Sun. 

The glorious sun, 
Stays in his course, and plays the alchemist ; 
Turning, with splendor of his precious eye, 
The meagre cloddy earth to glittering gold. 

1820 Shaks. : King John, Act iii., Sc. 1. 



280 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Busy old fool, unruly sun, 

Why dost thou thus, 

Through windows and through curtains call on us? 

1821 John Donne : The Sun-Rising. 

My own hope is, a sun will pierce 
The thickest cloud earth ever stretched. 

1822 Robert Browning : Apparent Failure, vii. 

Sunflower. 

Light enchanted sunflower, thou 
Who gazest ever true and tender 
On the sun's revolving splendor ! 

Restless sunflowers, cease to move. 

Shelley : Tr. of " Magico Prodigioso " of 

1823 Calderon, Sc. 3. 

The heart that has truly lov'd never forgets, 
But as truly loves on to the close, 
As the sunflower turns on her god when he sets 
The same look which she turn'd when he rose. 

Moore : Believe Me, If all Those Endearing 
1S2T Young Charms. 

Miles and miles of gold and green 
Where the sunflowers blow 
In a solid glow. 

1825 Robert Browning : Lovers' Quarrel, St. 6. 

Unloved, the sunflower, shining fair, 
Ray round with flames her disk of seed. 

1826 Tennyson : In Memoriam, Pt. ci., St. 2. 



DICTIONARY OSE POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 281 

Sunrise. 

When from the opening chambers of the ea 
. : _~ in thousand liveries di 
The early larks their morning tribute pay, 
And, in shrill notes, salute the blooming day. 
1827 Thomson: Thi M ; in the Country. 

"I ia morn. Behold the kingly Day now le a 

T::e eastern wall of earth with sword in hand, 

C ] in a flowing robe of mellow light. 

Like to a king that has regained his throne, 

Hr warms his drooping subjects into joy, 

That rise rejoiced to do him fealty, 

And roles with pomp the universal world. 

1S2S J a .. v:y I v v.u 5c. 2. 

Sunset 

The weary son hath made a golden set, 
And, by the bright track of his fiery car, 
Gives token :: a goodly day to-morrow. 

152:^ Sbaks. : Richard III.. Act v.. Sc. 3. 

O the wondrous golden sunset of the blest October 
1S30 Julia C. R. Dorr: Margery Or-:;... St. 24. 

The descending sun 
Seems tc Baresa Hie sity that he loves, 
An : . src ns it with ~::r aureole :: a saint. 

1831 LOHGFKLLOW : 3/.'; : ad ilfl^efo, Pt. L, -. 

The son is going down, 
And I must see the glory from the hill. 

1832 George Eliot: Agatha. 



282 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Sunshine. 

See the gold sunshine patching, 
And streaming and streaking across 
The gray-green oaks ; and catching, 
By its soft brown beard, the moss. 

1833 Bailey : Festus, Sc. The Surface. 

As sunshine broken in the rill, 
Though turned astray, is sunshine still. 

1834 Moore: The Fire- Worshippers. 

Surfeit. 

As surfeit is the father of much fast, 
So every scope, by the immoderate use, 
Turns to restraint. 

1835 Shaks. : M.for M., Act i., Sc. 3. 

Surprise. 

The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes 
And gaping mouth, that testified surprise. 

1836 Dryden : Cymon and Iphigenia, Line 41. 

Suspense. 

For thee the fates, severely kind, ordain 

A cool suspense, from pleasure and from pain. 

1837 Pope : Eloisa to A., Line 249. 



Suspicion. 

Suspicion 
The thief 

1838 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI., Act v., Sc. 6. 



Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind ; 
The thief doth fear each bush an officer. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 283 

Swallow. 

When Autumn scatters his departing- gleams, 
Warned of approaching Winter, gathered, play 
The swallow-people ; and tossed wide around 
O'er the calm sky. in convolution swift, 
The feathered eddy floats ; rejoicing once, 
Ere to their wintry slumbers they retire. 

1839 Thomson: Seasons, Autumn, Line 836. 

Swans. 

The swan, with arched neck 
Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows 
Her state with oary feet. 

1840 Milton: Par. Lost, Bk. vii., Line 438. 

Swearing. 

And being thus frighted swears a prayer or two 
And sleeps again. 

1841 Shaks. : Rom. and Jul, Act i., Sc. 4. 

Take not His name, who made thy mouth, in vain ; 
It gets thee nothing, and hath no excuse. 

1842 Herbert : Temple, Church Porch, St. 10. 

Sweetness. 

Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour. 
Is43 Shaks. : Richard II., Act i., Sc. 3. 

Married to immortal verse, 
Such acs the meeting soul may pierce, 
In notes with many a winding bout 
Of linked sweetness long drawn out. 

1844 Milton: L'A Ilegro, Line 135. 



284 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Swiftness. 

I go, I go ; look how I go ; 

Swifter than arrow from the Tartar's bow. 

1845 Shaks. : Mid. N. Dream, Act iii., Sc. 2. 

His golden locks time hath to silver turned ; 
O time too swift ! O swiftness never ceasing ! 

1846 George Peele : Sonnet, Polyhymnia. 

Swimming. 

How many a time have I 
Cloven with arm still lustier, breast more daring, 
The wave all roughen'd ; with a swimmer's stroke 
Flinging the billows back from my drench 'd hair, 
And laughing from my lip the audacious brine, 
Which kiss'd it like a wine-cup, rising o'er 
The waves as they arose, and prouder still 
The loftier they uplifted me. 

1847 Byron : Two Foscari, Act i., Sc. 1. 

Sword. 

Full bravely hast thou fleshed 
Thy maiden sword. 

1848 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV.. Act v., Sc. 4. 

Chase brave employment with a naked sword 
Throughout the world. 

1849 Herbert: The Church Porch. 

Sympathy. 

Thou hast given me, in this beauteous face, 
A world of earthly blessings to my soul, 
If sympathy of love unite our thoughts. 

1850 Shaks. : 2 Henry VI., Act i., Sc. 1. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 285 

There 's nought in this bad world like sympathy : 
'T is so becoming to the soul and face — 
Sets to soft music the harmonious sigh, 
And robes sweet friendship in a Brussels lace. 

1851 Byron : Don Juan, Canto xiv., St. 47. 

Synods. 

Synods are mystical bear-gardens, 
Where elders, deputies, church-wardens, 
And other members of the court, 
Manage the Babylonish sport. 

Butler : Hudibras, Pt. i., Canto Hi., 

1852 Line 1095. 



T. 

Tale. 

Who so shall telle a tale after a man, 

He moste reherse, as neighe as ever he can, 

Everich word, if it be in his charge, 

All speke he never so rudely and so large. 

Chaucer : Canterbury Tales, Prologue, 

1853 Line 733. 

But that I am forbid 
To tell the secrets of my prison-house, 
I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word 
Would harrow up thy soul. 

1854 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 5. 

I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver 
Of my whole course of love. 

1855 Shaks. : Othello, Act i., Sc. 3. 



286 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Meet me by moonlight alone, 

And then I will tell you a tale 
Must be told by the moonlight alone, 

In the grove at the end of the vale ! 

1856 J. A. Wade : Meet Me by Moonlight, 

Talk. 

We will not stand to prate ; 
Talkers are no good doers; be assured 
We go to use our hands, and not our tongues. 

1857 Shaks. : Richard III., Act i., Sc. 3. 

But still his tongue ran on, the less 
Of weight it bore, with greater ease 
And with its everlasting clack, 
Set all men's ears upon the rack. 

Butler : Hudibras, Pt. iii., Canto ii., 

1858 Line 413. 

They always talk who never think. 

Prior : Upon this Passage in the Scali- 

1859 geriana. 

Where Nature's end of language is declin'd, 
And men talk only to conceal the mind. 

1860 Young : Love of Fame, Satire ii., Line 207. 

It would talk, — 
Lord ! how it talked ! 

Beaumont and Fletcher : Scornful 

1861 Lady, Act v., Sc. 1. 

Tasso. 

Tasso is their glory and their shame. 
Hark to his strain ! and then survey his cell ! 
And see how dearly earn'd Torquato's fame, 
And where Alfonso bade his poet dwell. 

1862 Byron: Ch. Harold, Canto iv., St. 36. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 287 

Taste. 

Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you '11 find 

Two of a face as soon as of a mind. 

1863 Pope : Satire vi. ? Line 263. 

Good native Taste, tho' rude, is seldom wrong, 

Be it in music, painting, or in song : 

But this, as well as other faculties, 

Improves with age and ripens by degrees. 

1861 Armstrong : Taste, Line 26. 

Such and so various are the tastes of men. 

Akenside : PL of the Imagination, Bk. iii., 

1865 Line 567. 

Taxation. 

By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, 
And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring 
From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash, 
By any indirection. 

1866 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar, Act iv.. Sc. 3. 

Who nothing has to lose, the war bewails ; 
And he who nothing pays, at taxes rails. 

Congreve : Epis. to Si?' Richard Temple. 

1867 Of Pleasing, Line 17. 

Tea. 

For her own breakfast she '11 project a scheme, 

Xor take her tea without a stratagem. 

1S6S Young: Love of Fame, Satire vi., Line 190. 

Teaching. 

I have labored, 
And with no little study, that my teaching 
And the strong course of my authority 
Might go one way. 
1869 Shaks. : Henry VIII., Act v., Sc. 2. 



288 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Tears. 

The big round tears 
Cours'd one another down his innocent nose 
In piteous chase. 

1870 Shaks. : As You Like It, Act ii., Sc. 1. 

Then fresh tears 
Stood on her cheeks, as doth the honey-dew 
Upon a gather'd lily almost wither'd. 

1871 Shaks. : Titus And., Act iii., Sc. 1. 

Our present tears here, not our present laughter, 
Are but the handsells of our joys hereafter. 

1872 Herri ck : Noble Numbers, Tears. 

Thrice he assay'd, and thrice in spite of scorn, 
Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth. 

1873 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. i., Line 619. 

A child will weep a bramble's smart, 
A maid to see her sparrow part, 
A stripling for a woman's heart : 
But woe awaits a country, when 
She sees the tears of bearded men. 

1874 Scott : Marmion, Canto v., St. 16. 

To me the meanest flower that blows can give 
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. 

1875 Wordsworth: Intimations of Immortality. 

Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, 
Tears from the depth of some divine despair 
Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, 
In looking on the happy Autumn fields, 
And thinking of the days that are no more. 

1876 Tennyson : The Princess, Pt. iv., Line 21. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 289 

Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile. 

1S77 Campbell : PL of Hope, Pt. L, Line 180. 

Under the sod and the dew, 

Waiting the judgment day ; 
Love and tears for the Blue, 

Tears and love for the Gray. 
1S7S Francis M. Finch : The Blue and the Gray. 

Temper. 

Ye gods, it doth amaze me 
A man of such a feeble temper should 
So get the start of the majestic world 
And bear the palm alone. 
1S79 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar, Act i., Sc. 2. 

Temperance. 

Temp'rate in every place. — abroad, at home. 
Thence will applause, and hence will profit come ; 
And health from either — he in time prepares 
For sickness, age. and their attendant cares. 
1SS0 Crabbe: The Borough, Letter xvii., Line 198. 

Tempests. 

The southern wind 
Doth play the trumpet to his purposes ; 
And. by his hollow whistling in the leaves, 
Foretells a tempest and a blustering day. 
1881 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV., Act v., Sc. 1. 

Suddeine they see from midst of all the maine 
The surging waters like a mountaine rise, 
And the great sea puft up with proud disdaine, 
To swell above the measure of his guise, 
As threatning to devoure all that his powre despise. 

Spenser : Faerie Queene. Bk. ii.. Canto xii.. 
1SS2 St. 21. 



290 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

From cloud to cloud the rending lightnings rage ; 
Till, in the furious elemental war 
Dissolv'd, the whole precipitated mass, 
Unbroken floods and solid torrents pours. 

1883 Thomson : Seasons, Summer, Line 799. 



The sky 
Is overcast, and musters muttering thunder, 
In clouds that seem approaching fast, and show 
In forked flashes a commanding tempest. 

1884 Byron : Sardanapalus, Act ii., Sc. 1. 

Temptation. 

Oftentimes, to win us to our harm, 
The instruments of darkness tell us truths ; 
Win us with honest trifles, to betray us 
In deepest consequence. 

1885 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act i., Sc. 3. 



'T is the temptation of the devil 
That makes all human actions evil ; 
For saints may do the same things by 
The spirit, in sincerity, 
Which other men are tempted to, 
And at the devil's instance do : 
And yet the actions be contrary, 
Just as the saints and wicked vary. 

Butler : Hudibras, Pt. ii., Canto ii., 
1886 Line 233. 



Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution, 
She lives whom we call dead. 

1887 Longfellow : Resignation, 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 291 

Tenderness. 

Higher than the perfect song 
For which love longeth, 
Is the tender fear of wrong, 
That never wrongeth. 

1888 Bayard Taylor ; Improvisations, Pt. v. 

Tents. 

Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, 
And as silently steal away. 

1SS9 Longfellow : The Day is Done. 

Terror. 

There is no terror. Cassias, in your threats. 

1590 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar, Act iv.. Sc. 3. 

Test. 

Bring me to the test. 
And I the matter will re-word. 

1591 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 4. 

Text. 

And many a holy text around she strews. 
That teach the rustic moralist to die. 

1892 Gray: Elegy, St. 21. 

Thankfulness. 

The poorest service is repaid with thanks. 

1893 Shaks. : Tarn, of the S. : Act iv., Sc, 3. 

Thanks to men 
Of noble minds, is honorable meed. 

1891 Shaks. : Titus And.. Act i.. Sc. 2. 



292 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Theatre. 

As in a theatre, the eyes of men, 
After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, 
Are idly bent on him that enters next, 
Thinking his prattle to be tedious. 

1895 Shaks. : Richard IL, Act v., Sc. 5. 

Thief. 

The robb'd that smiles, steals something from the 
thief. 

1896 Shaks. : Othello, Act i., Sc. 3. 

Thirst. 

That panting thirst, which scorches in the breath 
Of those that die the soldier's fiery death, 
In vain impels the burning mouth to crave 
One drop — the last — to cool it for the grave. 

1897 Byron: Lara, Canto ii.. St. 16. 

Thorn. 

Why are we fond of toil and care? 
Why choose the rankling thorn to wear ? 

1898 J. M. Usteri : Life let us Cherish. 

Thought. 

Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own. 

1899 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 2. 

Thought alone is eternal. 

Owen Meredith : Lucile, Pt. ii., Canto v.. 

1900 St. 16. 

Xo thought which ever stirred 
A human breast should be untold. 

1901 Robert Browning: Paracelsus, Sc.2. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 293 

Thought leapt out to wed with Thought 
Ere Thought could wed itself with Speech. 

1902 Tennyson : In Memoriam, Pt. xxiii., St. 4. 

Thought is deeper than all speech, 

Feeling deejDer than all thought ; 
Souls to souls can never teach 

What unto themselves was taught. 

1903 Christopher P. Cranch : Stanzas. 

Thread. 

Sewing at once a double thread, 
A shroud as well as a shirt. 

1904 Hood : Song of the Shirt. 

Threats. 

If thou more murmur'st, I will rend an oak, 
And peg thee in his knotty entrails, till 
Thou hast howl'd away twelve winters. 

1905 Shaks. : Tempest, Act i., Sc. 2. 

Back to thy punishment, 
False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings, 
Lest with a # whip of scorpions I pursue 
Thy lingering. 

1906 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. ii., Line 699. 

Thrift. 

Thrift, thrift, Horatio ! the funeral baked meats 
Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables. 

1907 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 2. 

Throne. 

High on a throne of royal state, which far 
Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind. 

1908 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. ii., Line 1. 



294 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Thunder. 

And threatening France, plac'd like a painted Jove, 
Kept idle thunder in his lifted hand. 

1909 Dryden : Annus Mirabilis, St. 39. 

Far along, 
From peak to peak, the rattling crags among, 
Leaps the live thunder. 

1910 Byron : Ch. Harold, Canto iii., St. 92. 

Tide. 

Even at the turning o' the tide. 

1911 Shaks. : Henry V., Act ii., Sc. 3. 

There is a tide in the affairs of men 

Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. 

1912 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar, Act iv., Sc. 3. 

Time. 

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. 

1913 Shaks. : Richard II., Act v., Sc. 5. 

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, 

Old time is still a-flying ; 
And this same flower that smiles to-day, 

To-morrow will be dying. 

Herrick : To Virgins to Make Much of 

1914 Time. 

Threefold the stride of Time, from first to last ! 
Loitering slow, the Future creepeth — 
Arrow-swift, the Present sweepeth — 
And motionless forever stands the Past. 

1915 Schiller : Sentences of Confucius, Time. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 295 

Tithes. 

This priest he merry is and blithe 

Three quarters of a year, 
But oh ! it cuts him like a scythe, 

When tithing-time draws near. 

1916 Cowper : Yearly Distress, St. 2. 

Titles. 

We all are soldiers, and all venture lives ; 

And where there is no difference in men's worth, 

Titles are jests. 

Beaumont and Fletcher : King or No 

1917 King. Act i., Sc. 1. 

Titles are marks of honest men and w T ise ; 
The fool or knave that wears a title, lies. 

1918 Young: Love of Fame, Satire i., Line 137, 

Toad. 

Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve. 

1919 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. iv., Line 800. 

Tobacco. 

Sublime tobacco ! which from east to west 
Cheers the tar's labor or the Turkman's rest. 

1920 Byron : The Island, Canto ii., St. 19. 

To-day. 

Happy the man and happy he alone, 
He who can call to-day his own. 

Dryden : Im. of Horace, Bk. iii., Ode 29, 

1921 Line 65. 

Our cares are all To-day, our joys are all To-day ; 
And in one little word, our life, what is it but — 
To-day ? 

1922 Tupper : Proverbial Phil, of To-day. 



296 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Toil. 

Xo man is born into the world whose work 
Is not born with him. There is always work. 
And tools to work withal, for those who will; 
And blessed are the horny hands of toil. 

James Russell Lowell: A Glance Behind 

1923 the Curtain. 

Tomb. 

E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, 
E'en in our ashes live their wonted tires. 

1924 Gray: Elegy. St. 23. 

To-morrow. 

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow. 
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day. 
To the last syllable of recorded time : 
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools 
The way to dusty death. 

1925 Shaks.: Macbeth, Act v.. Sc. 5. 

Defer not till to-morrow to be wise. 
To-morrow's sun on thee may never rise. 

1926 Coxgreve : Letter to Cobham. 

To-morrow comes and we are where? 
Then let us live to-day. 

1927 Schiller: The Victory Feast, St. 13. 

Where art thou, beloved To-morrow? 

Whom young and old. and strong and weak, 

Rich and poor, through joy and sorrow. 

Thy sweet smiles we ever seek — 

In thy place — ah ! well-a-clay ! 

We find the thing we fled — To-day. 

1928 Shelley: To-morrow. 



DICTIONARY 09 POETICAL QUOTA! I 

Tongue. 

good tongue in thy 
I _ Shaks. 5c. 2. 

x ^ . . the candied tongue lick absui 

ages : the knee 
-:e thrift may : 

Shaks B Sc _ 

S red interpreter of human thought. 

He ■' fen res] jet ; i use thee as they : gfct 

I I U shall give J : inf : - -. y i rong 

Wh lis! . m lefile the tongue. 

1931 . ; ! , Line 23, 

Tools. 

all a rhetorician's i 

:h nothing but to name his tools. 
1 _ Butler : Hudibras, Pt :.. Cantc :.. Line B9. 

Toothache. 

Then i --: yet philosopher 

That soold endure the toothache patiently. 

Shaks. : :: A .'.. Act v.. So. 1. 

Torrent. 

So the loud torrent and the whirlwind's roar 
But bind him to his nat: 

idsmith : 3 . Li:;e 217. 

Torture. 

- hell of waters ! where tfa lias, 

And .boil in endless torture. 
1 By: 



298 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Towers. 

Towers and battlements it sees 
Bosoni'd high in tufted trees. 

1936 Milton: U Allegro, Line 75. 

Town. 

God made the country, and man made the town. 

1937 Cowper : Task, Bk L, Line 749. 

Toys. 

Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, 
And eagerly pursues imaginary joys. 

1938 Akenside : Virtuoso, St. 10. 

Trade. 

But times are alter'd; trade's unfeeling train 
Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain; 
Along the lawn, where scatter'd hamlets rose, 
Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp repose. 

1939 Goldsmith : Des. Village, Line 63. 

Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay. 

Dr. Johnson: Line added to Goldsmith's 

1940 Des. Village. 

Tranquillity. 

Like ships that have gone down at sea 
When heaven was all tranquillity. 

1941 Moore : Lalla Rookh,The Light of the Harem. 

Traveller — Travelling. 

Now spurs the lated traveller apace 
To gain the timely inn. 

1942 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act iii., Sc. 3. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 299 

When I was at home, I was in a better place ; 
But travellers must be content. 

1943 Shaks. : As You Like It, Act ii., Sc. 4. 

In travelling 
I shape myself betimes to idleness 
And take fools' pleasures. . . . 

1944 George Eliot: Spanish Gypsy, Bk. L 

Treason. 

Then I, and you, and all of us fell down, 
Whilst bloody treason flourish 'd over us. 

1945 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar, Act iii., Sc. 2. 

So Judas kiss'd his master, 
And cried — All hail ! when as he meant — all harm. 

1946 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI., Act v., Sc. 7. 

Treason doth never prosper : what 's the reason? 
Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason. 

Sir John Harrington : Epigrams, Bk. iv., 

1947 Epigram 5. 

Treason is not own'd when 't is descried; 
Successful crimes alone are justified. 

1948 Dryden: Medals, Line 207. 

Treasure. 

The unsunn'd heaps 
Of miser's treasure. 

1949 Miltox : Comus, Line 398. 

Trees. 

Trees can smile in light at the sinking sun 
Just as the storm comes, as a girl would look 
On a departing lover — most serene. 

1950 Robert Browning: Pauline, Line 726. 



300 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

The groves were God's first temples. Ere man 

learned 
To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, 
And spread the roof above them. 

1951 William Cullen Bryant : Forest Hymn. 

Sure thou didst flourish once ! and many springs, 
Many bright mornings, much dew, many showers, 
Passed o'er thy head; many light hearts and wings, 
Which now are dead, lodg'd in thy living bowers. 

1952 Henry Yaughan: The Timber. 

A brotherhood of venerable trees. 

1953 Wordsworth : Sonnet composed at Castle. 

Trial. 

We learn through trial. 

1954 Margaret J. Preston: Attainment, St. 7. 

Trifles. 

Since trifles make the sum of human things, 
And half our misery from our foibles springs. 

1955 Hannah More: Sensibility. 

Think nought a trifle, though it small appear ; 
Small sands the mountain, moments make the year; 
And trifles life. 

1956 Young : Love of Fame, Satire vi., Line 193. 

Triumph. 

Why comes temptation, but for man to meet 
And master, and make crouch beneath his foot, 
And so be pedestaled in triumph ? 

Robert Brow^ning : The Ring and the Book, 

1957 Line 1185. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 301 

Trouble. 

Double, double toil and trouble, 
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. 

1958 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act iv., Sc. 1. 

To be, or not to be : that is the question : 
Whether 't is nobler in the mind to suffer 
The stings and arrows of outrageous fortune, 
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, 
And by opposing end them. 

1959 Shaks.: Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 1. 

Truth. 

Truth is the highest thing that man may keep. 
Chaucer : The Frankeleines Tale, 

1960 Line 11789. 

0. while you live, tell truth, and shame the devil. 

1961 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV., Act iii., Sc. 1. 

Truth crushed to earth shall rise again : 
The eternal years of God are hers. 

1962 William Cullen Bryant : The Battle-field. 

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie ; 

A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby. 

1963 Herbert: Temple, Church Porch, St. 13. 

Truth has such a face and such a mien, 
As to be lov'd, needs only to be seen. 

1964 Dryden : Hind and Panther, Pt. i., Line 33. 

He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, 
And all are slaves beside. 

1965 Cowper: Task, Bk. v., Line 133. 



302 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Truth is one; 
And, in all lands beneath the sun, 
Whoso hath eyes to see may see 
The tokens of its unity. 

1966 Whittier: Miriam. 

Truth is truth howe'er it strike. 

1967 Robert Browning: La Saisiaz, Line 198. 

I love truth: truth 's no cleaner thing than love. 
Mrs. Browning: Aurora Leigh, Bk. iii., 

1968 Line 735. 

Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all 
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. 

1969 Keats : Ode on a Grecian Urn. 

Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the 
throne. 

James Russell Lowell : Present Crisis, 

1970 St. 8. 

Tulips. 

Then conies the tulip race, where beauty plays 

Her idle freaks ; from family diffused 

To family, as flies the father-dust, 

The varied colors run ; and while they break 

On the charmed eye, the exulting florist marks, 

With secret pride, the wonders of his hand. 

1971 Thomson : Seasons, Spring, Line 539. 

Tune. 

Strange that a harp of thousand strings 
Should keep in tune so long ! 

Watts : Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Bk. ii., 

1972 Hymn 19. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 303 

Turf. 

Green be the turf above thee, 
Friend of my better days ! 

Fitz-Greene Halleck : On Joseph 

1973 Rodman Drake. 

Turk. 

Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, 
Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne. 

1974 Pope: Prologue to the Satires, Line 197. 

Twilight. 

Xow came still evening on, and twilight gray 
Had in her sober livery all things clad. 

1975 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. iv., Line 598. 

Peacefully 
The quiet stars came out, one after one ; 
The holy twilight fell upon the sea, 
The summer day was done. 

1976 Celia Thaxter: A Summer Day, St. 15. 

Tyranny. 

'T is time to fear, when tyrants seem to kiss. 

1977 Shaks. : Pericles, Act i., Sc. 2. 

'Twixt kings and tyrants there 's this difference 

known — 
Kings seek their subjects' good, tyrants their own. 

1978 Herrick: Aph. Kings and Tyrants. 

Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that 
Of blood and chains ? 

1979 Byron : Sardanapalus, Act i., Sc. 2. 



304 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 



Uncertainty. 

Oh, how this spring of love resembleth 
The uncertain glory of an April day! 

1980 Shaks.: Two Gent, of F., Act L, Sc. 3. 

Unity. 

Two souls with but a single thought, 
Two hearts that beat as one. 

Maria White Lowell : Ingomar the 

1981 Barbarian, Act ii. 

Unkindness. 

This was the most unkindest cut of all. 

1982 Shaks. : Jul. Caesar, Act iii., Sc. 2. 

Use. 

These things are beyond all use. 
And I do fear them. 

1983 Shaks. : Jul. Cazsar, Act ii., Sc. 2. 



Vacuity. 

He trudged along, unknowing what he sought, 
And whistled as he went, for want of thought. 

1984 Dryden : Cym. and Iph., Line 84. 

Valentine. 

Oft have I heard both youths and virgins say, 
Birds choose their mates, and couple too, this day ; 
But by their flight I never can divine 
When I shall couple with my Valentine. 

1985 Herrick : Aph. To His Valentine. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 305 

Valor. 

Fear to do base unworthy things is valor ; 

If they be done to us, to suffer them, 

Is valor too. 

19S6 Ben Joxson : New Inn, Act iv., Sc. 3. 

Vanity. 

Light vanity, insatiate cormorant 
Consuming means, soon preys upon itself. 

1987 Shaks. : Richard II., Act ii., Sc. 1. 

What dotage will not Vanity maintain ? 
What web too weak to catch a modern brain ? 

1988 Cowper : Expostulation, Line 630. 

Vapor. 

A wing vapor melting in a tear. 

1989 Pope : Odyssey, Bk. xix., Line 143. 

Variety. 

Variety 's the very spice of life, 
That gives it all its flavor. 

1990 Cowper : Task, Bk. ii., Line 606. 

Vault. 

Heaven's ebon vault 
Studded with stars unutterably bright. 

1991 Shelley : Queen Mab. 

Vengeance. 

In high vengeance there is noble scorn. 

1992 George Eliot : Spanish Gypsy, Bk. iv. 

Venice. 

I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, 
A palace and a prison on each hand. 

1993 Byron : Ch. Harold. Canto iv., St. 1. 



306 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

In Venice, Tasso's echoes are no more, 
And silent rows the songless gondolier. 

1994 Byron : Ch. Harold, Canto iv., St. 3. 

Venus. 

Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, 
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise. 

Pope : Wife of Bath, Her Prologue, 

1995 Line 369. 

Verse. 

Whoe'er offends at some unlucky time 
Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme. 

1996 Pope : Satire L, Bk. ii., Line 76. 

Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound ; 
She feels no biting pang the while she sings. 

1997 Richard Gifford : Contemplation. 

Vice. 

There is no vice so simple, but assumes 
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts. 

1998 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act iii., Sc. 2. 

I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, 
And virtue has no tongue to check her pride. 

1999 Milton : Comus, Line 760. 

Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, 
As to be hated needs but to be seen ; 
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, 
We first endure, then pity, then embrace. 

2000 Pope : Essay on Man, Epis. ii., Line 217. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 307 

Victory. 

Thus far our fortune keeps an upward course, 
And we are grac'd with wreaths of victory. 

2001 Shaks. : 3 Henry VL, Act v., Sc. 3. 

" But what good came of it at last ? " 
Quoth little Peterkin. 
" Why, that I cannot tell," said he ; 
k, But 't was a famous victory." 

2002 Robert Southey : Battle of Blenheim. 

Village. 

Sweet Auburn ! loveliest village of the plain. 

2003 Goldsmith : Des. Village. 

Suburban villas, highway-side retreats, 
That dread th' encroachment of our growing streets, 
Tight boxes neatly sash'd, and in a blaze 
With all a July sun's collected rays, 
Delight the citizen, who gasping there, 
Breathes clouds of dust, and calls it country air. 

2004 Cowper : Retirement, Line 481. 

Villain. 

Which is the villain ? Let me see his eyes ; 
That when I note another man like him 
I may avoid him. 

2005 Shaks. : Much Ado, Act v., Sc. 1. 

Vine. 

Come, thou monarch of the vine, 
Plumpy Bacchus with pink eyne ! 

2006 Shaks. : Ant. and Gleo., Act ii., Sc. 7. 



308 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Violet. 

A violet by a mossy stone 

Half hidden from the eye ; 
Fair as a star, when only one 

Is shining in the sky. 

Wordsworth : She Dwelt among the 

2007 Untrodden Ways. 

Odors, when sweet violets sicken, 
Live within the sense they quicken. 

2008 Shelley : Music, When Soft Voices Die. 

What thought is folded in thy leaves ! 
What tender thought, what speechless pain ! 
I hold thy faded lips to mine, 
Thou darling of the April rain ! 

Thomas Bailey Aldrich : The Faded 

2009 Violet 

Virtue. 

Heaven doth with us, as we with torches do ; 
Not light them for themselves : for if our virtues 
Did not go forth of us, 't were all alike 
As if we had them not. 

2010 Shaks. : M. for M., Act i., Sc. 1. 

Men's evil manners live in brass ; their virtues 
We write in water. 

2011 Shaks. : Henry III., Act iv., Sc. 2. 

Assume a virtue if you have it not. 

2012 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 4. 

Virtue may be assail'd, but never hurt ; 
Surpris'd by unjust force, bnt not enthrall'd ; 
Yea, even that which mischief meant most harm. 
Shall in the happy trial prove most glory. 

2013 Milton : Comus, Line 589. 



Di< iimn aky OF POETH LL QUOTATIONS. 309 

Sometimes virtue starves while vice ig fed, 

What then V Is the reward of virtue bread? 

201 1 Tori: : Essay on Men, Epis. iv., Line 149. 

Vision. 

And in clear dream and solemn vision 

Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear. 

2015 Milton : Comus, Line 453. 

Voice. 

Her voice was ever soft, 
Gentle, and low; an excellent thing in woman. 

2016 Siiaks. : King Lear, Act v., Sc. 3. 

Vows. 

Un heedful vows may needfully be broken. 

2017 Shaks. : Two Gent, of V., Act ii., Sc. 6. 

It is the hour when lovers' vows 

Seem sweet in every whisper'd word. 

2018 Byron : Parisina, St. 1. 



W. 
Wagers. 

Quoth she, I 've heard old cunning stagers 
Say fools for arguments use wagers. 

Butler : Hudibras, Pt. ii., Canto L, 

2019 Line 297. 

Walks. 

A pillar'd shade 
High overarch'd, and echoing walks between. 

2020 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. ix., Line 1106. 



310 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Whene'er I take my walks abroad, 
How many poor I see ! 

2021 Watts : Divine Songs, Song iv. 

War. 

O war, thou son of hell, 
Whom angry heav'ns do make their minister, 
Throw in the frozen bosoms of our part 
Hot coals of vengeance ! — Let no soldier fly ; 
He that is truly delicate to war 
Hath no self-love : nor he that loves himself. 

2022 Shaks. : 2 Henry VL, Act v., Sc. 2. 

Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled 
front. 

2023 Shaks. : Richard III., Act i., Sc. 1. 

War 's a game, which, were their subjects wise, 
Kings would not play at. 

2024 Cowper : Task, Bk. v., Line 186. 

War, war is still the cry, " War even to the knife ! " 

2025 Byron: Ch. Harold, Canto i., St. 86. 

War is a terrible trade ; but in the cause that is 

righteous, 
Sweet is the smell of powder. 

Longfellow: Courtship of Miles Standish, 

2026 Pt. iv., Line 135. 

Warning. 

Men that stumble at the threshold, 

Are well foretold that danger lurks within. 

2027 ' Shaks. : 3 Henry VL, Act iv., Sc. 7. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 311 

Warrior. 

But he lay like a warrior taking bis rest, 
With his martial cloak around him. 

2028 Charles Wolfe : Burial of Sir John Moore. 

Washington. 

Washington f s a watchword such as ne'er 
Shall sink while there 's an echo left to air. 

2029 Byron: Age of Bronze, St. 5. 

Water. 

Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep. 

2030 Shaks. : 2 Henry VI., Act iii., Sc. 1. 

Till taught by pain. 
Men really know not what good water 's worth : 
If you had been in Turkey or in Spain. 
Or with a famish'd boat's crew had your berth. 
Or in the desert heard the camel's bell. 
You ? d wish yourself where truth is — in a well. 

2031 Byrox: Don Juan. Canto ii.. St. 81. 

Wave. 

So gently shuts the eye of day ; 
So dies a wave along the shore. 

2032 Mrs. Barbauld : Death of the Virtuous. 

A life on the ocean wave ! 

A home on the rolling deep. 
Where the scattered waters rave. 

And the winds their revels keep ! 

2033 Epes Sargext : Life On the Ocean Wave. 

Way. 

Like one that had been led astray 

Through the heav'n's wide, pathless way. 

2031 Miltox : // Penseroso, Line 65. 



312 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Weakness. 

If weakness may excuse, 
What murderer, what traitor, parricide, 
Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it ? 
All wickedness is weakness ; that plea, therefore, 
With God or man will gain thee no remission. 

2035 Milton : Sam. Agonistes, Line 831. 

Wealth. 

If thou art rich, thou art poor : 
For, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, 
Thou bearest thy heavy riches but a journey, 
And death unloads thee. 

2036 Shaks. : M. for M., Act iii., Sc. 1. 

To purchase heaven, has gold the power? 
Can gold remove the mortal hour? 
In life, can love be bought with gold? 
Are friendship's pleasures to be sold ? 

2037 Dr. Johxsox : To a Friend. 

Weeds. 

Have hung 
My dank and dropping weeds 
To the stern god of sea. 

2038 Milton : Tr. of Horace, Bk. i., Ode 5. 

Welcome. 

Sir, you are very welcome to our house. 
It must appear in other ways than words, 
Therefore, I scant this breathing courtesy. 

2039 Shaks. : M. of Venice. Act v.. Sc. 1. 

A hundred thousand welcomes : I could weep, 
And I could laugh ; I am light and heavy : 'Wel- 
come. 

2040 Shaks. : Coriolanus, Act ii., Sc. 1. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 313 

Wheel. 

I wandered by the brookside, 

I wandered by the mill; 
I could not hear the brook flow, 
The noisy wheel was still. 

Richard Monckton Milxes : 

2041 The Brookside. 

Wickedness. 

There is a method in man's wickedness, — 
It grows up by degrees. 

Beaumont and Fletcher : A King 

2042 and No King. Act v.. Sc. 4. 

Widows. 

May widows wed as often as they can, 
And ever for the better change their man : 
And some devouring plague pursue their lives. 
Who will not well be govern'd by their wives. 

2043 Drydex: Wife of Bath, Line 543. 

Wife. 

She is mine own : 
And I as rich in having such a jewel. 
As twenty seas, if all their sands were pearl, 
The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold. 

2044 Shaks. : Two Gent, of V.. Act ii.,Sc. 4. 

We '11 leave a proof, by that which we will do, 
Wives may be merry, and yet honest too. 

2045 Shaks. : Mer. W. of W., Act iv., Sc.2. 

The wife, where danger or dishonor lurks. 
Safest and seemliest by her husband stays. 
Who guards her. or with her the worst endures. 

2046 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. ix., Line 2*37 



314 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

She is a bonnie Tree thing, 
This sweet wee wife o' mine. 

2047 Burns : My Wife 's a Winsome Wee Thing. 

The world well tried — the sweetest thing in life 
Is the unclouded welcome of a wife. 

2048 N; P. Willis : Lady Jane, Canto ii., St. 11. 

Wilderness. 

Oh for a lodge in some rast wilderness, 
Some boundless contiguity of shade. 

2049 Cowper : Task, Bk. ii., Line 1. 

Will. 

A weapon that comes down as still 

As snowflakes fall upon the sod ; 
But executes a freeman's will, 

As lightning does the will of God. 

2050 John Pierpont : A Word from a Petitioner. 

Willow. 

A poore soule sat sighing under a sycamore tree ; 

Oh, willow, willow, willow ! 
With his hand on his bosom, his head on his knee, 

Oh, willow, willow, willow ! 

2051 Thomas Percy : Willow, Willow, Willow. 

Wind. 

What wind blew you hither, Pistol ? 

Not the ill wind which blows none to good. 

2052 Shaks. : 2 Henry IV., Act v., Sc. 3. 

The wind is rising ; it seizes and shakes 
The doors and window-blinds and makes 
Mysterious moanings in the halls ; 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 315 

The convent-chimneys seem almost 

The trumpets of some heavenly host, 

Setting its watch upon our walls ! 

2053 Longfellow: Christus, Abbot Joachim. 

A gentle wind of western birth, 
From some far summer sea, 
Wakes daisies m the wintry earth. 

George Macdonald : Songs of the 
20 5 i Spring Days. 

A melancholy sound is in the air, 

A deep sigh in the distance, a shrill wail 

Around my dwelling. 'T is the Wind of night. 

2055 William Cullen Bryant : .4 Rain Dream. 

Windows. 

Rich windows that exclude the light, 
And passages that lead to nothing. 

2056 Gray : A Long Story. 

Wine. 

Wine makes Love forget its care, 
And mirth exalts a feast. 

Parnell : Anacreontic, "Gay Bacchus, etc.,'" 

2057 St. 2. 

And wine can of their wits the wise beguile, 
Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile. 

2058 Pope : Odyssey, Bk. xiv., Line 520. 

Wing. 

This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing 
To waft me from distraction. 

2059 Byron : Ch. Harold, Canto iii., St. So. 



316 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

How at heaven's gates she claps her wings, 
The niorne not waking til she sings. 

Johx Lyly : Cupid and Campaspe, 

2060 Act v., Sc. 1. 

Winter. 

Xow is the winter of our discontent 

Made glorious summer by this sun of York. 

2061 Shaks. : Richard III., Act i., Sc. 1. 

See, Winter comes to rule the varied year, 
Sullen and sad, with all his rising train, 
Vapors, and clouds, and storms. 

2062 Thomsox : Seasons, Whiter, Line 1. 

But Winter has yet brighter scenes — he boasts 
Splendors beyond what gorgeous Summer knows; 
Or Autumn with his many fruits, and woods 
All flushed with many hues. 

William Cullex Bryant : A Winter 

2063 Piece. 

Xo vernal blooms their torpid rocks array, 
But winter lingering chills the lap of May. 
2061 Goldsmith : Traveller, Line 171. 

In rigorous hours, when down the iron lane 
The redbreast looks in vain 

For hips and haws, 
Lo. shining flowers upon my window-pane 

The silver pencil of the winter draws. 

2065 Robert Louis Stevexsox : Winter. 

Wisdom. 

Wisdom and fortune combating together, 
If that the former dare but what it can, 
No chance may shake it. 

2066 Shaks.: Ant and Cleo., Act iii., Sc. 11. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 317 

T ia little can be known : 

To see all others 1 faults, and feel 

2067 Pope: E-:: : . : . Mr. .. Epis. iv.. Line 260. 

The stream from Wisdom's well, 

Which < T ; ;1 supple 

2065 Bayard Taylor: TT';> ;• ■;■■?■. <:/ A'.l. 

And Wisdom's sel: 
Of: seeks to sweet retired solitude. 

2069 Milton: Conis. Line 373. 

Wishes. 

Thv vrisa -ras father. Harrv. to that thought. 

2070 Shaks.: 2 Ht-vri IV.. Act iv.. 5e. 4. 

C>ar vrishes lengthen, as :ur suit leeliues. 

Young: Xicv. T\y. a,. X:,at v.. 

2071 Liar ::. 

Wit — Wits. 

That hath :-ut :a;e hole f : to sterteu to. 

Chaucer: Carr.-ir :■■:■.-, T .V>. T\e Wif of 

2072 Ba:\ts P\.: ;:,:. Line 6154. 

2073 Herbert: T~; ■:.:':. C. ' f. \ St. 41. 

Great wits are sui e t madness near allied, 
And tneir bounds divide. 

Dryden: A:?,:'.. . a . . '-:.'. Pt. :.. 

2074 Line 163. 



318 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Men famed for wit, of dangerous talents vain. 
Treat those of common parts with proud disdain. 

2075 Crabbe : Patron. Line 229. 

Though I am young. I scorn to flit 
On the wings of borrowed wit. 

George Wither : The Shepherd's 

2076 Hunting. 

Witches. 

Midnight hags. 
By force of potent spells, of bloody characters. 
And conjurations, horrible to hear. 
Call fiends and spectres from the yawning deep. 
And set the ministers of hell at work. 

2077 Rowe : Jane Shore, Act iv., Sc. 1. 

Woe. 

But I have that within which passeth show; 
These but the trappings and the suits of woe. 

2078 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act L. Sc. 1. 

Woes cluster ; rare are solitary woes j 

They love a train, they tread each other's heel. 

2079 Young: Night Thoughts, Xight iii., Line 63. 

Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure 
Thrill the deepest notes of woe. 

2080 Burns : Sweet Sensibility. 

Wolf. 

He 's the symbol of hunger the whole earth through. 
His spectre sits at the door or cave. 
And the homeless hear with a thrill of fear 
The sound of his wind-swept voice on the air. 

Hamlin Garland: The Gaunt Gray 

2081 Wolf. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 319 

Woman. 

Women are as roses ; whose fair flower, 
Being once display'd, doth fall that very hour. 

2082 Shaks. : Tw. Night, Act ii., Sc. 4. 

Honor to women ! to them it is given 

To garden the earth with the roses of Heaven. 

2083 Schiller : Honor to Women. 

Nothing lovelier can be found 
In woman, than to study household good, 
And good works in her husband to promote. 

2084 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. ix., Line 232. 

O woman ! lovely woman ! Nature made thee 
To temper man ; we had been brutes without you. 

2085 Otway: Venice Preserved, Act i., Sc. 1. 

Where is the man who has the power and skill 
To stem the torrent of a woman's will? 
For if she will, she will, you may depend on 't ; 
And if she won't, she won't ; so there 's an end on 't. 
Copied from the pillar erected on the mount in the 
Dane John Field, Canterbury. [Examiner : 

2086 May 31, 1829.] 

And yet believe me, good as well as ill, 
Woman 's at best a contradiction still. 
Heaven, when it strives to polish all it can 
Its last best work, but forms a softer man. 

2087 Pope : Moral Essays, Epis. ii., Line 269. 

Earth's noblest thing, a woman perfected. 

2088 James Russell Lowell: Irene. 



320 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

And whether coldness, pride, or virtue, dignify 
A woman ; so she 's good, what does it signify ? 

2089 Byron : Don Juan, Canto xiv., St. 57. 

Oh, woman ! in our hours of ease, 
Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, 
And variable as the shade 
By the light quivering aspen made ; 
When pain and anguish wring the brow, 
A ministering angel thou ! 

2090 Scott : Marmion, Canto vi., St. 30. 

The woman that deliberates is lost. 

2091 Addison : Cato, Act iv., Sc. 1. 

A woman mixed of such fine elements 
That were all virtue and religion dead 
She 'd make them newly, being what she was. 

2092 George Eliot : The Spanish Gypsy, Bk. ii. 

Till we are built like angels, with hammer, and 

chisel, and pen, 
We will work for ourselves and a woman, for ever 

and ever, Amen. 

2093 Rudyard Kipling : An Imperial Rescript. 

"Wonder. 

A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour ! 

2094 Byron : Ch. Harold, Canto ii., St. 2. 

Woodland. 

Yon woodland, like a human mind, 
Has many a phase of dark and light ; 

Now dim with shadows wandering blind, 
Now radiant with fair shapes of light. 

2095 Paul Hamilton Hayne : The Woodland. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 321 

Woodman. 

Woodman, spare that tree ! 

Touch not a single bough ! 
In youth it sheltered me, 

And I '11 protect it now. 

George P. Morris : Woodman, Spare 

2096 that Tree. 

Woods. 

Fresh gales and gentle airs 
Whisper'd it to the woods, and from their wings 
Flung rose, flung odors from the spicy shrub. 

2097 Miltox : Par. Lost, Bk. viii., Line 508. 

"Words. 

'T is well said again, 
And 't is a kind of good deed to say well : 
And yet words are no deeds. 

2098 Shaks. : Henry VIII., Act iii., Sc. 2. 

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below : 
Words without thoughts, never to heaven go. 

2099 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 3. 

Apt words have power to 'suage 
The tumors of a troubled mind ; 
And are as balm to f ester 'd wounds. 

2100 Miltox : Samson Agonistes, Line 181. 

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would. 

2101 George Eliot : Spanish Gypsy, Bk. iii. 

Words, however, are things. 

Owex Meredith : Lucile, Pt. i., 

2102 Canto ii., St. 6. 



322 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Wordsworth. 

Time may restore us in his course 
Goethe's sage mind and Byron's force ; 
But where will Europe's latter hour 
Again find Wordsworth's healing power? 

2103 Matthew Arnold : Memorial Verses. 

Work. 

Free men freely work : 
Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease. 

Mrs. Browning: Aurora Leigh, Bk. viii.. 

2104 Line 752. 

Men must work, and women must weep. 

2105 Charles Kingsley : The Three Fishers. 

World. 

Why, then, the world 's mine oyster, 
Which I with sword will open. 

2106 Shaks. : Mer. W. of W., Act ii., Sc. 2. 

You have too much respect upon the world : 
The}' lose it that do buy it with much care. 

2107 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act i., Sc. 1. 

Fast by hanging in a golden chain, 
This pendent world, in bigness as a star. 

2108 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. ii., Line 1051. 

This world is all a fleeting show, 
For man's illusion given ; 
The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, 
Deceitful shine, deceitful flow — 
There 's nothing true but Heaven. 

2109 Moore : This World is all a Fleeting Show, 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 323 

I have not loved the world, nor the world me. 

2110 Byron : Ch. Harold, Canto iii., St. 113. 

Worm. 

The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on. 

2111 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI., Act ii., Sc. 2. 

Worship. 

There may be worship without words. 

2112 Longfellow : My Cathedral. 

Worth. 

Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow ; 
The rest is all but leather or prunella. 

2113 Pope : Essay on Man, Epis. iv., Line 203. 

Wounds. 

Give me another horse : bind up my wounds. 
2111 Shaks. : Richard III., Act v., Sc. 3. 

Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike. 

2115 Pope : Prol. to the Satires, Line 201. 

Wrath. 

Come not within the measure of my wrath. 

2116 Shaks. : Two Gent. ofV., Act v., Sc. -A. 

Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring 
Of woes umium ber'd, heavenly goddess, sing ! 

2117 Pope : " Iliad, Bk. i., Line 1. 

Wreaths. 

Xow are our brows bound with victorious wreaths. 
Our bruised arms hung up for monuments. 

2118 Shaks. : Richard III., Act i., Sc. 1. 



324 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

"Wrecks. 

Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks, 
Ten thousand men that fishes gnawed upon. 

2119 Shaks. : Richard III., Act i., Sc. 4. 

Wretch. 

A needy, hollow-eyed, sharp-looking wretch, 
A living dead man. 

2120 Shaks. : Com. of Errors, Act v., Sc. 1. 

Writing. 

You write with ease to show your breeding, 
But easy writing 's curs'd hard reading. 

2121 Sheridan : Clio's Prot. 

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, 
Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. 

Sheffield, Duke of Buckinghamshire : 

2122 Essay on Poetry. 

Wrong. 

Behold on wrong 
Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong ! 

2123 Pope : Odyssey, Bk. viii., Line 367. 

Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged. 

2124 Wordsworth: Excursion, Bk. iii. 



X. 

Xerxes. 

Xerxes did die, 
And so must I. 
2125 From the New England Primer. 



DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 325 



Years. 

Jumping o'er times, 
Turning the accomplishment of many years 
Into an hourglass. 

2126 Shaks. : Henry "P.. Act L, Chorus. 

Years following years, steal something every day : 
At last they steal us from ourselves away. 

2127 Pope : Satire vi., Line 72. 

I sigh not over vanished years. 

But watch the years that hasten by. 

Look, how they come. — a mingled crowd 

Of bright and dark, but rapid days. 

212S William Cullen Bryant : Lapse of Time. 

None would live past years again, 
Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain. 

2129 Dryden : Aurengzebe. Act iv., Sc.l. 

Yesterday. 

Oh, call back yesterday, bid time return ! 

2130 * Shaks/: Richard II.. Act iii., Sc. 2. 

Yew-Tree. 

Old yew. which graspest at the stones 

That name the underlying dead. 

Thy fibres net the dreamless head. 
Thy roots are wrapt about the bones. 

2131 Tennyson: In Memoriam, Pt. ii.. St. 1. 

Youth. 

For youth no less becomes 
The light and careless livery that it wears. 



326 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 

Than settled age his sables, and his weeds, 
Importing health and graveness. 

2132 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act iv., Sc. 7. 

Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. 

2133 Shaks. : Two Gent, of V. s Act i., Sc. 1. 

Youth! youth! how buoyant are thy hopes! they 

turn, 
Like marigolds, toward the sunny side. 
2131 Jean Lxgelow: Four Bridges, St. 56. 

How beautiful is youth ! how bright it gleams 
With its illusions, aspirations, dreams ! 

2135 Longfellow: Morituri Salutamus. 

In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes, 

Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm. 

2136 Gray ; Bard, Pt. ii., St. 2, Line 9. 



Zeal. 

Had I but served my God with half the zeal 
I served my king, he would not in mine age 
Have left me naked to mine enemies. 

2137 Shaks. : Henry VIII., Act iii., Sc. 2. 

His zeal 
None seconded, as out of season judg'd, 
Or singular and rash. 

2138 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. v., Line 849 



INDEX TO AUTHORS. 



The references-which follow the Chronological Data are the numbers 

of the Quotations in consecutive order from the respective Authors 

under which they are placed. 



Addison, Joseph, b. Milston, 
Wiltshire, Ensr.. 1672; d. Lon- 
don, Eng., 1719. —50, 393, 556, 
629, TOO, 713, 749, 766, 925, 969, 
107S, 15S3, 1814, 2191. 

Akenside, Mark. b. New- 
castle-upon-Tyne, 1721 ; d. 
London, Eng., 1770. — 1S65, 
193S. 

Aldrich, Jarnes. b. New 
York. 1810; d. 1856. — 1481. 

Aldrich, Thoroas Bailey. 
b. Portsmouth. }s.H., 1886; 
. . . .—238, 407, 771, 2009. 

Allen, Elizabeth Akers. b. 
Strong, Ale., 1S32 ; . . . .— 
313. 

Armstrong, John. b. Liddes- 
dale, Eng., 1709 ; d. London, 
Eng.. 1779. —1864. 

Arnold, Sir Edwin, b. Lon- 
don, Eng., 1S32; . . . . — 49S. 

Arnold, Matthew, b. Lale- 
ham. Middlesex. Ens 1 ., 1822; 
. . . .—1537. 2103. 

Aytoun, William Edmond- 
stonne. b. Fifeshire, 1S13: d. 
1865. —1735. 

Bailey, Philip James, b. 

Nottingham. Eng., 1816; . . . . 
-43, 79. 322. 531, 614, 746, 967. 
1349, 1770. 1883. 
Baillie, Joanna, b. Lanark- 
shire, Scot., 1762; d. Hamp- 
stead. Eng., 1851. — 19S. 



Barbauld, Anna Laetitia. b. 

Leicestershire, Eng., 1743 ; d. 

1825. — 782, 1717, 2032. 
Barrington, George, b. May- 

nooth, Ireland, 1755; d. New 

South Wales at a great age. — 

413. 
Barry, Michael J. Circa 

1815. — 1340. 
Baxter, Richard. b.Rowdon, 

Shropshire, Eng., 1615 ; d. 1691. 

— 1375. 

Bayly, Thomas Haynes. b. 
near Bath, Eng., 1797 ; d. 1S39. 

— 2 IS. 1335. 

Beattie, James, b. Laurence- 
kirk. Scot., 1735 ; d. Aberdeen, 
Scot'.. 1S03. —60, 4S5, 670, 837. 

Beaumont and Fletcher. 
Beaumont. Francis, b. Leices- 
tershire, Eng., 15S6; d. 1615. 
Fletcher. John. b. Eye, Eng., 
1576: d. London, Eng., 1625. 
19, 22, 204, 408, 559. 59S, 1154, 
1231. 1568, 1861, 1917, 2042. 

Benserade, Isaac de. b. in 
Upper Normandv, 1612 ; d. 
1691.-164. 

Blair, Robert, b. Edinburgh, 
Scot., 1699 ; d. Athefstaneford, 
Scot.. 1747. — 85, 819, 836, 1651. 

Booth, Barton, b. Lancashire, 
Eng.. 16S1 ; d. 1733. —1354. 

Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth. 
b* Fredericksvern, Norwav, 
184S; d. 1895. -1028, 1162. 



327 



328 



INDEX TO AUTHORS. 



Bramston, James, b. Eng- 
land ; d. 1744. — 875. 

Brown, John. b. England, 
1715; d. 1766. — 49, 431. 

Brown, Torn. b. Shropshire, 
Eng., 1663; d. 1704. —562. 

Browning, Elizabeth Bar- 
rett, b. London, Eng., 1809; 
d. Florence, Italy, 1861.— 160, 
196, 650, 778, 848, 8S7, 1006, 
1039, 1073, 1296, 1373, 1659, 
1709, 1733, 1968, 2104. 

Browning, Robert, b. Cairi- 
berwell, Eng., 1812; d. 1889.— 
65, 129, 251, 474, 519, 681, 747, 
865, 993, 994, 996, 1086, 1123, 
1188, 1222, 1228, 1312, 1344, 
1351, 1450, 1667, 1710, 1822, 
1825, 1901, 1950, 1957, 1967. 

Bryant, William Cullen. 
b. Cummington, Mass., 1794; 
d. New York, 1878. —234, 240, 
317, 627, 697, 725, 758, 851, 906, 
1155, 1246, 1277, 1321, 1445, 
1604, 1663, 1793, 1819, 1951, 
1962, 2055, 2063, 2128. 

Bulwer, Edward George 
Earle Lytton [Baron Lyt- 
ton]. b. London, Eng., 1803 ; d. 
Torquay, France, 1873. —1323. 

Bunn, Alfred, b. England ; 
d. 1860. —888. 

Bunyan, John. b. Elstow, 
Eng., 1628; d. London, Eng., 
1688. — 664, 1383. 

Burns, Robert, b. Ayr, Scot., 
1759; d. Dumfries, Scot., 1796. 
— 20, 208, 222, 242, 552, 5S8, 592, 
604, 694, 773, 783, 954, 964, 986, 
1080, 1095, 1106, 1109, 1129, 
1147, 1193, 1345, 1435, 1588, 
1599, 1600, 1642, 1704, 2047, 
2080. 

Butler, Samuel, b. Worces- 
tershire, Eng., 1612 ; d. Lon- 
don. Eng., 1680. -39, 153, 236, 
303,' 305, 405, 423, 549, 566, 574, 
615, 799, 972, 992, 1014, 1110, 
1209, 1271, 1284, 1334, 1347, 
1394, 1405, 1449, 1496, 1504, 
1510, 1557, 1585, 1682, 1705, 
1811, 1852, 1858, 1886, 1932, 
2019. 



Byron, George Gordon, 
Lord. b. London, Eng., 
17S8; d. Missolonghi, Greece, 
1824. —31, 59, 62, 116, 133, 148, 
169, 176, 209, 315, 351, 352, 354, 
368, 388, 419, 451, 460, 469, 470, 
486, 506, 511, 534, 537, 553, 582, 
594, 612, 619, 651, 677, 734, 748, 
751, 787, 813, 841, 842, 843, 850, 
878, 879, 898, 908, 910, 995, 1059, 
1075, 1087, 1115, 1131, 1133, 
1166, 1221, 1229, 1232, 1251, 
1275, 1303, 1337, 1391, 1407, 
1419, 1442, 1498, 1506, 1522, 
1529, 1538, 1556, 1563, 1573, 
1575, 1580, 1596, 1601, 1620, 
1621, 1625, 1668, 1672, 1679, 
1686, 1688, 1716, 1718, 1731, 
1751, 1792, 1794, 1818, 1847, 
1851, 1862, 1884, 1897, 1910, 
1920, 1935, 1979, 1993, 1994, 
2018, 2025, 2029, 2031, 2059, 
2089, 2094, 2110. 

Campbell, Thomas, b. Glas- 
gow, Scot., 1777; d. Boulogne, 
France, 1844. — 142, 149, 359, 
570, 715, 723, 933, 1243, 1390, 
1541, 1584, 1593, 1694, 1703, 
1741, 1877. 

Canning, George, b. London, 
Eng., 1770 ; d. Cheswick, Eng., 
1827. - 729. 

Carey, Henry, b. 1663; d. 
Coldbath-Fields, Eng., 1743. — 
349. 

Carlyle, Thomas, b. Eccle- 
fechan, Scot., 1795; d. Chelsea, 
near London, Eng., 1881. — 
1090, 1150. 

Cary, Alice, b. near Cincin- 
nati, 0., 1820; d. New York 
City, 1871.— 536, 1262. 

Cary, Phoebe, b. near Cincin- 
nati, O., 1824; d. New York 
City, 1871.— 646. 

Chapman, George. b. 

Hitchin, Eng., 1557; d. Lon- 
don, Eng., 1634.— 658. 

Chatterton, Thomas. b. 
Bristol, Eng., 1752; d. Lon- 
don, Eng., 1770. —1136. 

Chaucer, Geoffrey, b. Lon- 



INDEX TO AUTHORS. 



329 



don, Eng., 132S ; d. 1400. — 40, 

104, 1647, 1S53, 1900. 2072. 
Chorley, Henry Fothergill. 

b. 1808; d. 1872. — 1268. 
Churchill, Charles. b. 

Westminster, Eng., 1731 ; d. 
Boulogne, France, 1764. — 9S, 
100, 135, 530, 69S, 703, S74, 978, 
1713, 1749. 

Clerniner, Mary. b. Utica, 
N.Y., 1S39; d. 1884.— 676. 

Coleridge, Saniuel Taylor. 
b. Devonshire, Eng., 1772; d. 
London, Eng., 1S34. — 71, 143, 
2S2. 395. 465, 484, 599. T08, 728, 
979, 1138, 1227. 1330. 1372, 1379, 
1431. 1473, 1507. 1561. 1673. 

Collins, William, b. Chiches- 
ter, Eng., 1720; d. Chichester, 
Eng., 1756. — 227, 928, 1035, 
1239. 

Colman, George [the younger], 
b. 1762 ; d. London. Eng-., 1836. 
-971. 

Congreve, William, b. Bard 
Bey, Eng.. 1670; d. London, 
Eng., 1729. — 185, 775, 1237, 
1S67, 1926. 

Cook. Eliza, b. London, Eng., 
1817; d. 1889. -1747. 

" Cornwall, Barry." See 
Procter Bryan Waller. 

Cowley, Abraham, b. Lon- 
don. Eng., 1618; d. Chertsev, 
Eng.. 1667. —479, 7^6. 

Cowper, William, b. Great 
Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire, 
Eng.. 1731; d. 1800. -30. 102, 
146. 175. 365. 403. 412. 586, 591, 
656, 739, 762, 868, 889. 914, 960, 
1036, 1079, 1201, 1393. 1401, 1404, 
1437, 1466, 1475. 1571. 1637, 1723, 
1752. 1759. 1799, 1916, 1931, 1937, 
1965. 1988, 1990,2004, 2024,2049. 

Crabbe, George, b. Aidbor- 
ough, Eng., 1754; d. Trow- 
bridge, Eng., 1832. —44. 205. 
330. 379, 428, 1382, 1412, 1515, 
1576, 1617, 1702, 1880, 2075. 

Cranch, Christopher 
Pearse. b. Alexandria. Va.. 
1818 ; . . . . — 1903. 

Crashaw, Richard, b. Lon 



don, Eng., about 1616 ; d. Italy, 
about 1650. —541, 814. 
Croly, George, b. Dublin, 
Ireland, 1780; d. I860.— 1261. 

Dana, Richard Henry, b. 

Cambridge. Mass., 17^7; d. 
Boston, Mass., 1878. — 1773. 

Dante, Alighieri. b. Florence, 
Italy, 1265 ; d. Kavenna, 1321.— 
936. 

Darwin, Erasmus, b. New- 
ark, Eng., 1731; d. Derby, Eng., 
1802. — 1168. 

Defoe, Daniel, b. London, 
Eng.', 1601 ; d. London, Eng., 
1731. —384, 1300. 

De E'Isle, Joseph Ronget. 
b. Lons-le-Saunice, France, 
1760; d. 1836. —807. 

Dickens, Charles, b. Land- 
port, near Portsmouth, Eng., 
1812; d. Gadshill. near Roches- 
ter, Eng., 1870. —997. 

Donne, John, D.D. b. Lon- 
don, Eng., 1573; d. London, 
Eng., 1631.— 1821. 

Dorr, Julia Caroline Rip- 
ley, b. Charleston, S.C., 
1825: . . . . — 1493. 1830. 

Drake, Joseph Rodman, b. 
New York City, 1795; d. New 
York City, 1820. — 714. 761. 

Dryden, John. b. Aid win- 
kle. Eng., 1631 ; d. London, 
Eng.. 1701. — 158. 226. 252. 337, 
344, 504. 680. 776, 790. 858. 860, 
871. 884, 1179, 1234. 1299, 1346, 
135S. 1362. 1365. 1425. 1460. 1549, 
1577. 1610, 1764, 1772. 1836, 1909, 
1921. 19.48. 1964, 1984, 2043, 2074, 
2129. 

Dwight, Timothy, b. North- 
I arnpton. Mass.. 1752 ; d. Xew 
Haven, Conn., 1817.— 357. 

Dyer, Sir Edward, b. Sharp- 
harn, near Glastonbury, circa 
1540; d. 1607. —331. 1190. 

Dyer, John. b. 1700; d. 1758. 
— 1053. 

Eliot, George [Marian Evans 
Cross], b. Warwickshire, Eng., 



330 



INDEX TO AUTHORS. 



1820 ; d. London, Eng., 18S0. — 
862, 1091, 1256, 1276,1350, 1478, 
1534, 1779, 1832, 1944, 1992, 2092, 
2101. 

Elliott, Ebenezer. b. Mas- 
borough, Eng., 1781 ; d. near 
Barnsley, Eng., 1S49. — 1046. 

Enierson, Ralph Waldo, b. 
Boston, Mass., 1803; d. Con- 
cord, Mass., 1882. —105, 161, 
191, 239, 247, 249, 443, 605, 759, 
765, 791, 817, 944, 1428, 1648, 
1678, 1748. 

Everett, Edward, b. Dorches- 
ter, Mass., 1794; d. 1865. —912. 

Faber, Frederick William. 

b. Durham, Eng., 1814; d. 
Brompton, Eng., 1S63. — 1516. 

Falconer, William, b. Edin- 
burgh, Scot., 1732 ; shipwrecked 
near Cape Good Hope, 1769. — 
1069, 1675. 

Fenner, Cornelius G. b. 
1822; d. 1847. —1609. 

Fielding, Henry, b. Sharp- 
ham Park, Eng., 1707; d. Lis- 
bon, Spain, 1754. —1330. 

Fields, James Thomas, b. 
Portsmouth, N.H., 1817; d. 
1831.— 420. 

Finch, Francis M. b. 1827; 
. . . . — 1873. 

Fletcher, John. b. North- 
hamptonshire, Eng., 1576; d. 
1625. —1304, 1655. 

Ford, John. b. Islington, 
Eng. f 1536; d. circa 1639.— 
1159. 

Franklin, Benjamin [" Rich- 
ard Saunders"], b. Boston, 
Mass., 1706; d. Philadelphia, 
Penn., 1790.— 231. 

Garland, Hamlin, b. West 

Salem. Wis., 1860 ; . . . . — 

346, 1230, 1761, 2081. 
Garrick, David, b. Lichfield, 

Eng., 1716 ; d. London, Eng., 

1779. —406, 1724. 
Garth, Sir Samuel. b. 

Bolam, Eng., circa 1670 ; d. 

London, Eng., 1718. - 1395. 



Gay, John. b. near Barnstaple, 
Eng., 1688; d. London, Eng., 
1732.— 32, 124, 620, 642, 730, 
781, 883, 952, 1416, 1434, 1452, 
1562, 1608, 1677. 

Gifford, Richard, b. 1725; 
d. North Okendon, Eng., 1807. 
— 1997. 

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang 
von. b. Frankfort-on-the- 

Main, Germany, 1749 ; d. Wei- 
mar, Germany, 1832. — 192. 

Goldsmith, Oliver, b. Pallis, 
Ireland, 1723 ; d. London, Eng., 
1774. —35, 53, 107, 189, 340, 341, 
342, 345, 364, 466. 517, 639, 695, 
707, 710, 733, 788, 849. 901, 1063, 
1107, 1114. 1137, 1297, 1339, 1487, 
1495, 1589, 1591, 1742, 1750, 1756, 
1934. 1939, 2003, 2064. 

Gould, Hannah Flagg. b. 
Lancaster, Vt., 1789 ; d. New- 
bury port, Mass., 1865. — 1553. 

Gray, Thomas, b. London, 
Eng., 1716; d. Cambridge, Eng., 
1771.-103, 193, 216, 378, 382, 
3S5, 443, 450, 613, 624, 704, 716, 
720, 7S9, 832, 833, 863, 963, 1041, 
1141, 1174, 16S7, 1892, 1924, 
2056, 2136. 

Green, Matthew, b. London 
(?), Eng., 1696; d. 1737. —369. 

Greene, Robert. b. Nor- 
wich (?), circa 1560 ; d. near 
Dowgate, Eng., 1592. —1105. 

Halleck, Fitz-Greene. b. 

Guilford, Conn., 1770; d. Guil- 
ford, Conn., 1867. —493, 904, 
1313. 1973. 

Halpine, Charles Grahame 
[" Miles O'Reilly"], b. Old- 
castle, Meath, Ireland, 1829 ; d. 
New York City, 1868. —756. 

Harrington, Sir John. b. 
near Bath. Eng., circa 1561 ; d. 
1612. — 1947. 

Harte, Francis Bret. b. 
Albany, N.Y., 1839 ;....— 
433, 1306, 1739. 

Havergal, Frances Ridley. 
b. Worcestershire, Eng., 1336; 
<L Swansea, Eng., 1879. —326. 



INDEX TO AUTHORS. 



331 



Hay, John. b. Salem, Ind., 

1838 ;.... — 1367. 
Hayne, Paul Hamilton, b. 

Charleston, S.C., 1831 ; . . . . 

— 2095. 

Heber, Reginald. b. Che- 
shire, Eng., 1783; d. Trichin- 
opoly, India, 1826. — 501, 934, 
1295. 

Heinans, Felicia Dorothea. 
b. Liverpool, Eng\, 1793; d. 
Dublin, Ireland, 1835. —496, 
717, 907, 16S3, 1776. 

Herbert, George, b. in Mont- 
gomery Castle, Wales, 1593 ; d. 
Bemerton, Wales, 1632. — 24, 
199, 250, 602, 6S7, 784, 1083, 
1145, 1348, 1467, 1842, 1849, 
1963, 2073. 

Herrick, Robert, b. London, 
Eng., 1591; d. Dean Prior, 
Eng., 1674.— 11, 42, 2S0, 461, 
699, 1697,1791, 1872, 1914, 1978, 
19S5. 

Heywood, Thomas, b. Lin- 
colnshire, Eng., 1570 ; d. 1649. 

— 28,920. 

Hogg, James, b. Ettrick For- 
est, Scot., 1772 ; d. 1S35. —801. 

Holmes, Oliver Wendell. 
b. Cambridge, Mass., 1809; d. 
1894. —233, 618, 649, 929, 1241, 
1307, 1314, 1440, 1547, 1550, 
1800. 

Home, John. b. Ancrum, 
Scot., 1724; d. 1808. — 265. 

Hood, Thomas, b. London, 
Eng., 1798-9 ; d. London, Eng., 
1845. — 131, 229, 298, 463, 533, 
583, 867, 1208, 1282, 1414, 1438, 
1472, 1652, 1695, 17S8, 1904. 

Hopkinson, Joseph. b. 
Philadelphia, Penn., 1770; d. 
1842. - 976. 

Howe, Julia Ward. b. New 
York. 1819; . . . .-320. 

Hunt, Helen [Mrs. Jackson], 
b. Amherst, Mass., 1831 ; d. 
San Francisco, Cal., 18S5.— 130, 
1156, 1167. 

Hunt, James Henry Leigh. 
b. Southgate, near London, 
Eng., 1784; d. 1859. — 1613. 



Hutchinson 5 Ellen Mackay. 

— 1640. 

Ingelow, Jean. b. Ipswich, 
Eng., 1S30; d. 1S97. -9, 180, 
669, 1121, 1760, 2134. 

Jefferys, Charles, b. 1807; 

d. 1865. —231, 245. 
Johnson, Dr. Samuel. b. 

Lichfield, Eng., 1709 ; d. Lon- 
don, Eng., 1784. — 132, 580, 
590, 768, 815, 857, 945, 965, 989, 
1003, 1111, 1940, 2037. 

Jones, Sir William, b. Lon- 
don, Eng., 1746 ; d. India, 1794. 
— 1064, 1322. 

Jonson, Ben. b. London, 
Eng., 1573-4; d. London, Eng., 
1637. —267, 548, 828, 1016, 1102, 
1210, 1508, 1616, 1658, 1986. 

Keats, John. b. London, Eng., 
1795 ; d. Kome, Italy, 1821. — 
127, 159, 919, 1130, 1236, 1267, 
1352, 1433, 1535, 1730, 1969. 

Keble, John. b. Coln-St.-Ald- 
wynds, Eng., circa 1792; d. 
Bournemouth, Eng., 1866. — 
1298. 

Kemble, Frances Anne. b. 
London, Eng., 1811 ; d. 1893. — 
248. 

Kingsley, Charles, b. Devon- 
shire, Eng., 1819 ; d. Eversley, 
Eng., 1875.— 15, 277, 290, 348, 
516, 785, 823, 1031, 1161, 1360, 
1519, 2105. 

Kipling, Rudyard. b. Bom- 
bay, India, 1865; . . . . — 744, 
2093. 

Lamb, Charles, b. London, 
Eng., 1775; d. London, Eng., 
1834. —311. 

Landor, Walter Savage, b. 

Ipsley Court, Warwickshire, 
Eng., 1775; d. Florence, Italy, 
1864. — 263, 688. 
Landsdowne, Lord [George 
Granville], b. Bideford, Eng., 
1667; d. London, Eng., 1735. 

— 835. 



332 



INDEX TO AUTHORS. 



JLarcoin, Lucy. b. Beverlv 

Farms. Mass., 1826 ; d. 1893. — 

840. 
Lee, Nathaniel, b. England, 

1655; d. London, Eng., 1692. — 

844. 
Linley, George, b. London, 

Eng., 1T9S: d. France, 1S65. 

- 7. 1178. 

Lofft, Capel. b. London, Eng., 
1751 ; d. France, 1824. - 53. 

Logan, John. b. Soutra, Scot., 
1748; d. 17SS. —366. 

Longfellow, Henry Wads- 
worth, b. Portland, Ale., 1807 ; 
d. Cambridge, Mass.. 1882. — 
110, 141, 150, 177, 307. 321. 
499, 632, 654, 733, 742. ?80, 
796, 942, 94S, 1017, 1045, 1055, 
1074, 10S9, 1261, 1302. 1311. 
1316, 1427, 1551, 1603, 1633. 
1734. 1806, 1831, 1887, 1889, 
2026, 2053. 2112, 2135. 

Lovelace, Richard, b. Wool- 
wich. En^., 1618 ; d. London, 
Eng.. 1658. —144. 1384. 

Lover, Samuel, b. Dublin, Ire- 
land, 1797 : d. 1868. —1483. 

Lowe, John. b. 1750; d. 1798. 

— 1217. 

Lowell, James Russell, b. 

Cambridge, Mass., 1819; d. 

1391. — 304. 323. 335. 391. 503, 

514. 611. 635, 810. 1012. 1054, 

1226. 1420. 1923, 1970. 2088. 
Lowell. 3Iaria White, b. 

Watertown, Mass.. 1821 ; d. 

1853. — 1981. 
Lowth, Robert, b. Winchester. 

Eng., 1710: d. 1787. —1403. 
Lyly, John. b. Kent. Ens - ., circa 

1553 ; d. circa 1600. —2060. 

3Iacaulay, Thomas Babing- 

ton. b. Bothley Temple. Eng.. 

1800; d. Kensington, London. 

Eng.. 1859. - 495. 
3Iacdonald, George, b. Hunt- 
lev. Scot., 1824 : .... —2054. 
Marlowe, Christopher, b. 

Canterbury. Eni:.. 1565; d. 

Deptford.' Eng.,' 1593. — 213. 

1511, 1513, 1670. 



3Iartial [Marcus Valerius Mar- 
tialisj. b. Bilbilis, Spain, 43; 
d. Bilbilis. Spain. 104. —505. 

3Iassinger, Philip, b. near 
Wilton. Ens.. 1584; d. on the 
Bankside. 1639-40. — 1411. 1817. 

3Iee, William. — 675. 

" 3Ieredith, Owen"' [Lord 
Edward Robert Bulwer Lyt- 
ton]. b. Herts. Eng.. 1831 ; d. 
1891. —225. 540. 645, S66, 981, 
1000, 1127,' 1245, 1491, 1900, 
2102. 

3Iickle, William Julius, b. 
Dumfriesshire. Scot., 1734; d. 
1788.— 946. 

3Iiddleton, Thomas, d. 1626. 
— 16. 134. 1502. 

3Iiller, " Joaquin " Cincin- 
natus Hiner. b. Indiana. 
1840 :....— 371. 477. 647. 
1030, 1185. 1828. 

3Iilnes, Richard 3Ionckton 
[Lord Houghton], b. York- 
shire, Eng., 1809; d. 1SS5. — 
B90, 2041. 

3Iilton, John. b. London, 
Eng., 1608; d. London, Eng., 
1674. — 1, 4. 18. 68. 77. 78, 
SO, 90, 112, 117, 120. 157, 170, 
186, 187, 207, 275. 284. 288, 
300, 312, 336, 356, 360, 373, 
381, 383, 387, 397, 416, 429, 
441. 445. 456. 468, 492, 515. 
51 S, 520, 526, 539. 551, 563, 
576. 595. 597. GOO, 607, 608, 
610, 628, 631. 634, 652. 667. 
696, 701, 711, 712. 735. ?40, 
770, 797, 802, 804. BOO, 847. 
^77. B80, B92, 895. S96, 931. 
935. 956. 982. 991. 1001, 1018, 
1025, 1037, 1052. 1057, 1060, 
1077, 1031, 1085, 1094, 1100, 
1160, 1169. 1173, 11-4. 1187. 
1192, 1213. 1215. 1220, 1248, 
1255, 1260. 1287, 1310, 1320. 
1325, 1331. 1371. 1380. 1397. 
1399. 1402, 1406, 1421. 1439. 
1447, 1454, 1494, 1497, 1500, 
1505, 1509. 1512, 1525. 1569, 
1597. 1611. 1612. 1628, 1650. 
1654, 1660. 1661, 1665, 1693. 
1740, 1758. 1777. 1783. 1840, 



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334 



INDEX TO AUTHORS. 



Praed, Winthrop Mac 
worth.. b. London, Eng. 
1802; d. London, Eng., 1839, 

— 137, 1132. 
Preston, Margaret Junkin 

b. Lexington, \ T a., 1835; d 
1897. — 911, 1292, 1954. 

Prior, Matthew. b. near 
Wimborne- Minster, Eng., 1664 
d. Wimpole, Eng., 1721.-69, 
623, 962, 990. 1126, 1S59. 

Procter, Bryan Waller 
[" Barry Cornwall"], b. Lon- 
don, Eng., 1787; d. 1874.— 
1244, 1606. 

Rabelais, Francois, b. Chi- 
non, France, 1483-95 : d. Paris, 
France, 1553. — 546. 

Raleigh, Sir Walter. b. 
Budleigh, Eng., 1552 ; d. Lon- 
don, Eng., 1618. —1305, 1691. 

Read, Thomas Buchanan. 
b. Chester, Penn., 1822; d. 
New York City, 1872. — 1796. 

Rochester, Earl of [John 
Wilraot]. b. Ditchley, Eng., 
1647; d. 1630. —736. 

Rogers, Samuel, b. Stoke 
Newington. Eng., 1763 ; d. 
London, Eng., 1855. — 1172, 
1175, 1240, 1546. 

Roscommon, Earl of [Went- 
worth Dillon]. b. Ireland, 
1633; d. London, Eng., 1684. 

— 512. 

Rossetti, Christina Geor- 
giana. b. London, Eng., 
1830; d. 1S94. — 347, 726, 949, 
1536, 1692, 

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, b. 
London, Eng., 1828; d. Lon- 
don, Eng., 1832. — 1029, 1171. 

Rowe, Nicholas, b. Little 
Barford, Eng., 1673-74; d. 
London, Eng., 1718. —1199, 
2077. 

Ruskin, John. b. London, 
Eng., 1819; d. 1900. —121, 
1265, 1278, 1671. 

Salis, J. G. von. b. 1762 ; d. 
1834. — 194. 



Sargent, Epes. b. Glouces- 
ter, Mass., 1812; d. 1881.— 
2033. 

Savage, Richard, b. Lon- 
don, Eng.. 169S; d. 1743.— 
1424. 

Saxe, John Godfrey, b. 
Highgate, Vt., 1816; d. 1887. 
— 210, 861. 

Schiller, Johann Chris- 
toph Friedrich von. b. 
Marbach, Ger., 1759; d. Wei- 
mar, Ger., 1805. —109, 497, 
1007, 1273, 1477, 1629. 1712, 
1915, 1927, 20S3. 

Scott, Sir Walter, b. Edin- 
burgh, Scot., 1771 ; d. Abbots- 
ford, Scot., 1832. —327, 509, 
535, 702, 732, 826, 893, 1050, 
1051, 1103, 1134, 1214, 1436, 
1501, 1524, 1622, 1669, 1732, 
1874, 2090. 

Sedley, Charles. b. Kent, 
Eng., 1639; d. 1701.-291. 

Shakespeare, William, b. 
Stratford-on-Avon, Eng., 1564 ; 
d. Stratford-on-Avon, Eng., 
1616.-3,5, 6, 12,13, 14,17,21, 
25, 26, 27, 29, 33, 37, 38, 41, 46, 
47, 51, 52, 54, 55, 56, 66, 67, 72, 
74, 75, 86, 87, 83, 89, 91, 94, 96, 
97, 99, 101, 111, 113, 114, 118, 
119, 126, 138, 139, 140, 145, 152, 
154, 155, 156, 165, 167, 168, 182, 
190, 195, 197, 200, 201, 203, 211, 
214, 215, 217, 220, 223, 224, 228, 
235, 237, 241, 243, 253, 254, 255, 
257, 259, 261, 266, 271, 272, 273, 
278, 279, 2S3, 2S6, 287, 293, 295, 
297, 306, 316, 318. 332, 334, 350, 
353, 355, 361, 362, 367, 370, 372, 
374, 375, 376, 377, 380, 3S6, 389, 
390, 392, 394, 396, 399, 400, 410, 
414, 415, 417, 418, 422, 424, 425, 
426, 437, 439, 444, 446, 447, 453, 
454, 455, 457, 458, 459, 462, 471, 
472, 475, 480, 482, 483, 483, 489, 
490, 491, 503, 513, 521, 524, 528, 
529, 542, 543, 545, 550, 557, 558, 
560, 564. 565, 567, 568, 569, 573, 
575, 577, 57S, 579, 581, 587, 601, 
603, 616, 617, 636, 638, 641, 644, 
653, 657, 659, 665, 666, 673, 674, 



INDEX TO AUTHORS. 



335 



678, 
692, 
753, 
792, 
816, 
83S, 
870, 
921, 
941, 
9S4. 
1009, 
1021 
1043 
1072. 
1104 
1140, 
. 115' 
1180. 
1200, 
1212, 
124 
1274, 
1239 
1317, 
1333 
1361 
13S9, 
1422, 
1456, 
1476. 
1499, 
1544, 
1572, 
1590, 
1615, 
1643, 
1664, 
1690, 
1707, 
1727, 
1755, 
1789, 
1S04, 
1820, 
1845, 
1866, 
1SS5, 
1896, 
1913, 
1943, 
1977, 
2001, 
2016, 



679, 684, 686, 689, 690, 
705, 709. 7 IS. 722. 724. 
754. 755, 763, 764, 771, 
794, 795, 793, 800, S03, 
818, 821, 824, 825, S27, 
S39, 845, S46, 853, S54, 
S73, 876, S35, S91, 894, 
923, 924, 930, 93S, 939, 
955, 961, 966, 973. 977, 
9S5, 9SS, 999, 1002, 
, 1010, 1013, 1015, 1019, 
, 1023, 1026, 1027, 1033, 
1056, 1062, 1065, 1063, 
1076, 1082, 1034, 1098, 
,1108,1112,1113,1119, 
,1142,1143,1144,1151, 
1158,1164,1165,1170, 
1183,1191,1194,1196, 
1202, 1203, 1204, 1205, 
1219, 1225, 1233, 1235, 
■; 1254, 1259, 1269, 1270, 
•. 1279. 1231, 1233, 1285, 
1290, 1291, 1301, 130S. 
, 1313, 1326, 1327. 1323. 
,1333,1341.1342,1357, 
1363, 1370, 1378, 1336, 
1396,1393,1403,1409, 
1426. 1430, 1443, 1448. 
1458. 1463, 1468, 1469, 
1484, 1486, 1488, 1489, 
1521,1527,1528,1532, 
1552, 1555. 1565, 1566, 
1573,1579,1531,1536. 
1594, 1595, 1598, 1605. 
1619,1626. 1630,1635, 
1644,1649.1653,1656, 
1674,1631,1634,1685, 
1696, 1698, 1700, 1701, 
1703, 1714, 1720, 1722, 
1738,1744,1745,1746, 
1762, 176S, 1769, 177S, 
1790. 1797. 179S, 1801, 
1805. 1803, 1309, 1S12, 
1829,1335,1838,1841, 
1848,1850,1854,1855, 
1S69, 1370, 1871,1379, 
1390, 1391,1893,1594, 
1899,1905.1907.1911, 
1925,1929,1930.1933. 
1945, 1946, 1953, 1959, 
1980, 19S2, 19S3, 1937, 
2005, 2006, 2010, 2011, 
2017,2022,2023,2027, 



691, 
750, 
777, 
SOS, 
S30, 
S56, 
909, 
940, 
983, 
1004, 
1020. 
1034, 
1071. 
1099, 
1139, 
1153, 
1176, 
1198, 
1207. 
1242. 
1272. 
12S6. 
1309, 
1332. 
1359. 
1388, 
1415. 
1451. 
1470. 
1490. 
1533, 
1567, 
1587, 
1614, 
1641. 
1662, 
1689, 
1706, 
1726. 
1754, 
1752. 
1302. 
1816; 
1843, 
1857, 
1SS1, 
1S95, 
1912. 
1942, 
1961, 
1993, 
2012. 
2030. 



2036, 2039, 2040, 2044, 2045, 2052, 
2061, 2066, 2070, 2078, 2082, 2098, 
2099, 2106, 2107, 2111, 2114, 2116, 
2118, 2119, 2120, 2126, 2130, 2132, 
2133,2137. 

Sheffield, John [Duke of 
Buckinghamshire], b. 1649: 
d. 1720.-918, 2122. 

Shelley, Percy Bysshe. b. 
near Horsham, Eng., 1792 ; 
drowned in the Gulf of Spezia, 
Italy, 1S22.- 442, 502, 538,596, 
633. S99. 1024, 1294, 1363, 1503, 
1823, 1923, 1991, 2008. 

Shenstone, William. b. 
Leasowes, Eng., 1714; d. Lea- 
sowes, Eng.,1763. — 9S7, 1736. 

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley 
Butler, b. Dublin, Ireland, 
1751 ; d. London, Eng., 1816.— 
2121. 

Shirley, James, b. London, 
Eng., 1594; d. London, Eng., 
1666. — 23. 

Sidney, Sir Philip, b. Pens- 
hurst. Eng.. 1554 ; d. Arnheim, 
Holland, 1586. - 1728. 

Sigourney, Lydia Huntley. 
b. Norwich, Conn., 1791; 
d. Hartford, Conn., 1863.— 
1253. 

Smith, Alexander, b. Kil- 
marnock, Scot., 1830; d. 
Wardie, Scot., 1867. — 572, 
1163, 1429. 

Smith, James, b. London, 
Eng., 1775; d. London, Eng., 
1339. — 1676. 

Smith, Samuel Francis, b. 
Boston, Mass., 180S ; d. 1895. 
— 1315. 

Smollett, Tohias George, b. 
near Kenton, Eng.. 1721 ; d. 
Leghorn, Italy, 1771. -975. 

Southey, Robert, b. Bristol, 
Eng., 1774; d. Cumberland, 
Eng., 1843. -147. 974, 2002. 

Spenser, Edmund, b. Lon- 
don, Eng., 1553 ; d. London, 
Eng., 1599. — 125, 302, 421,510, 
555, 99S, 1011, 1120, 1181, 1224, 
1264, 1540. 1719, 1S82. 

Sprague, Charles, b. Boston, 



336 



IXDEX TO AUTHORS. 



Mass.. 1791: d. Boston. Mass.. 
1575. —1249. 

Stedrnan, Edmund Clar- 
ence, b. Hartford. Conn.. 
1833; .... —296, 625, 1639. 

Stevens, George Alexander. 
b. London, Ens-., 1720 ; d. 1784. 
— 1554. 

Stevenson, Robert Louis 
Balfour. b. Edinburgh, 
Scot., 1850 ; d. Island of 
Samoa. 1S94. — 106, 183, 258, 
915. 1257. 1319. 2065. 

Stoddard, Richard Henry. 
b. Hino-hain. Mass. 1525 : . . . . 
— 84, 128, 310. 741,' 1101, 1539. 

Storv, Joseph. b. Marble- 
head. Mass.. 1779; d. Cam- 
bridge. Mass.. 1545. —1377. 

Suckling, Sir John. b. Whit- 
ton. Eng.. 1608-9 : d. Paris. 
France. 1641-2. —467, 640 . 1122. 

Swift, Jonathan, b. Dublin. 
Ireland. 1667 ; d. Dublin. 
Ireland, 1745. — 719. 721, 903. 
1005. 

Swinburne, Algernon 
Charles. b. Holmwood. 
Eng., 1537; . . . . — 1097. 

Taylor, Bayard, b. Kennett 
Sq., Penn., 1525; d. Berlin. 
Ger.. 1875.— 476, 1044, 10S5, 
1513. 1555. 2065. 

Taylor, Sir Henry, b. Dur- 
ham, Eng., 1S00: d. 1556.— 
449. 

Taylor, Jane. b. London, 
Eng., 1753 ; d. Onsrar, Essex- 
shire. 1524. — 1159. 

Tennyson, Alfred, b. Som- 
ersbv. Eng., 1510; d. 1592.— 
151. 166, 172. 246, 292, 319. 325, 
333, 335. 554. 606. 626. 630. 64-. 
661, 779, 820, 851. 900,' 927, 953, 
1032. 1040, 1093, 1117, 1125, 
1293; 1374, 1357, 1461, 1462; 
1607; 1699, 1711, 1771, 1786, 
1826! 1876, 1902, 2131. 

Thaxter, Celia !Leighton. 
b. Portsmouth. X.H.,1535: d. 
1894.— 1976. 

Thomas, Frederick Will- 



iam, b. Providence. E.I., 
1511: d. 1566. —10. 

Thomson, James, b. Ednam. 
Scot.. 1700 : d. Kew. Eng., 
174^.-36. 339. 522. 622, 693, 
752. 913. 951, 959, 1206, 1343, 
1479. 1450, 1545, 17S0, 1785, 
1787, 1827, 1839, 1883, 1971, 
2062. 

Tickell, Thomas. b. near 
Carlisle, Eng., 1686; d. Bath. 
Eng., 1740.— 1560. 

Tohin, John. b. Salisbury, 
Eng., 1770; d. 1804. —427. 

Toplady, Augustus Mon- 
tague, b. Stirrer. Eng., 1640 ; 
d. 1778. —1523. 

Trumbull, John. b. Leba- 
non. Conn., 1750 : d. New York 
City. 1531.— 564.' 

Tapper, 3Iartin Farquhar. 
b. London, Eng., 1510 ; d. 
1559. — 1513, 1922. 

Tusser, Thomas, b. Eiven- 
liall. Eng.. 1515-23 ; d. London, 
Eng., 1550.— 324. 

Usteri, Johann 3Iartin. b. 

Zurich. Switzerland, 1763 ; d. 
1827.— 1898. 

Vaughan, Henry, b. Breck- 
nockshire. Wales. 1621: d. 
1695. — 706, 1145, 1464, 1952. 

Wade, J. A. b. 1800 ; d. 1875. 
— 1556. 

Waller, Edmund, b. Coles- 
hill. Ens:.. 1605; d. Beacons- 
field, Eng., 16S7.— 63, 81, 230, 
552. 1657. 

Walton, Izaak. b. Stafford, 
Eng.. 1593: d. 1683.— 1457. 

Warton, Thomas, b. Basing- 
stoke. Eng.. 1728 : d. 1790. —92. 

Watts, Isaac, b. South Hamp- 
ton. Eng.. 1674; d. Theobalds, 
Eng.. 1745. — 672. 582. 1223, 
1559. 1570, 1737, 1972,2021. 

Webster, John. b. circa 
1570 : d. 1635.— 1066. 1795. 

White, Henry Kirke. b. 
Nottingham, Eng., 1785; d. 



INDEX TO AUTHORS. 



337 



Cambridge, Eng., 1806. — 268, 
401. 

Whitman, Walt. b. Long 
Island, N.Y., 1819; d. 1892. 
— 264. 

Whittier, John Greenleaf. 
b. Haverhill, Mass., 1807 ; d. 
1892. —532, 637, 760, 772, 1149, 
1177, 1252, 1355, 1376, 1966. 

Willis, Nathaniel Parker. 
b. Portland, Me., 1807 ; d. Idle- 
wild, N.Y., 1S67. — 1135, 2048. 

Winter, William, b. Glou- 
cester, Mass., 1S36 ; ... . — 76. 

Wither, George, b. Brent- 
worth, Eng., 15SS; d. London, 
Eng., 1667. —270, 2076. 

Wolfe, Charles, b. Dublin, 
Ireland, 1791 ; d. Cove of Cork, 
1823.— 2028. 

Woodworth, Samuel. b. 
Scituate, Mass., 17S5; d. New 
York City, 1842. — 244. 

Wordsworth, William, b. 



Cockermouth, Eng., 1770; d. 
Rydal Mount, Eng., 1850. — 
34, 61, 163, 174, 178, 206, 256, 
274, 301, 309, 473, 487, 523, 527, 
571, 593, 662, 743, 757, 769, 806, 
822, 834, 917, 937, 947, 958, 968, 
970, 1022, 1042, 1096, 1186, 1324, 
1353, 1366, 1381, 1432, 1446, 
1453, 1520, 1526, 1530, 1627, 
1632, 1634, 1666, 1753, 1767, 
1774, 1781, 1784, 1807, 1815, 
1875, 1953, 2007, 2124. 
Wotton, Sir Henry. b. 
Boughton Malherbe, Eng., 
1568 ; d. Eaton, Eng., 1639. — 
1116, 1715. 

Young, Edward, b. Upham, 
Eng., 16S4 ; d. Welwyn, Eng., 
1765. —48, 57, 115, 179, 184, 363, 
404, 434, 494, 525, 561, 980, 1070, 
1385, 1410, 1455, 1465, 1471, 
1602, 1729, 1763, 1810, 1860, 
1868, 1918, 1956, 2071, 2079. 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



The references designate the mmibers of the Quotations. 



Abbots, purple as their wines, 2. 
Abdiel. so spake the seraph, 4. 
Absence conquers love, 10. 

of occupation is not rest, 960. 

whole years in. to deplore, S. 
Abstinence', the defensive virtue, 

11. 
Abyss, beyond is all. 023. 
Accident, by many a happy, 16. 

the unthought-on. 13. 
Accidents by flood and Held, 14. 

our wanton, take root, 15. 
Account, sent to my, 17. 
Accounts, draw the', of evil. 333. 
Acquaintance, should auld, be 

forgot. 20. 
Acting of a dreadful thing, 437. 
Action, of everv noble, the in- 
tent, 22. 

pleasure and, make the hours 
seem short. 21. 
Actions of the just, 23. 
Acts, our. our angels are. 1655. 
Adam dolve and Eve span. 793. 

the goodliest man. 631. 

whipped the offending, 3S9. 
Adieu, my native shore, 31. 

she cried. 32. 
Admiration, season vour, for a 

while. 33. 
Adorning with so much art, 479. 
Adversary, a stony. 446. 
Adversite. fortunes sharpe. 40. 
Adversity, bruised with. 38. 

sweet are the uses of, 37. 
Advice, danger to give, to kinsrs, 
42. 

't was good, 44. 

worst men often give the 
best, 43. 



Affectation, with a sickly mien, 

45. 
Affection is a coal that must be 

cooled. 47. 
Affliction is enamored of thy 
parts, 255. 
is the good man's shining 

scenef-AS. 
tries our virtue. 49. 
Affliction's sons are brothers in 

distress. 242. 
Affronts, vounsr men soon give, 

50. 
Age cannot wither her, 55. 
I must not tell my. 53. 
rock the cradle of, 432. 
when, is in, wit is out, 51. 
Asrent. trust no. 279. 
Ages, alike ail. 466. 
Aim. failed in the high, 65. 
Air. the. a chartered libertine, Q6. 
Alaeritv in sinking. 67. 
Ale, drink of Adam's, 69. 

the spicy nut-brown, 63. 
Alexandrine, a needless. 70. 
Alone on a wide sea, 71. 
Amazement on thv mother sits, 

72. 
Amber, to observe the forms in, 

73. 
Ambition finds such joy, 73. 
fling away. 74. 
has but one reward, 76. 
to reign is worth. 77. 
which o'erleaps itself, 75. 
America, half-brother of the 

world, 79. 
Anarch, thy hand, great. 473. 
Anarchy, hold eternal, 30. 
Ancient of days, 116. 



339 



340 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



Angels come and go, 84. 
lackey her, 300. 
where, fear to tread, S3. 
Angels' visits, short and far be- 
tween, 85. 
Anger never made good guard, 

8T. 
Anger 's my meat, 86. 
Angling, the pleasantest, 88. 

wagered on your, 89. 
Anna, here thou, great, 411. 
Antiquity, ways of hoar, 92. 
Apathy, in lazy, 93. 
Apollo's laurel bough, 213. 
Apostles would have done, 1T6. 
Apostolic blows and knocks, 

574. 
Apparel, fashion wears out more, 
678. 
oft proclaims the man, 94. 
Apparition, a lovely, 527. 
Apparitions, like, seen and gone, 

95. 
Appearances to save, his only 

care, 9S. 
Appetite, good digestion wait on, 
99. 
grown by what it fed on, 

46. 
stands cook, 100. 
Applaud to the very echo, 101. 
Applause, attentive to his own, 
276. 
of listening senates, 103. 
oh, popular, 102. 
Apples, since Eve ate, 553. 

small choice in rotten, 316. 
April cold with dropping rain, 

105. 
Aprile has fairly come, 106. 
Aprille, with his shoures sote, 

104. 
Arabs, fold their tents like the, 

1889. 
Arch, look on its broken, 1716. 
Arguing, in, the parson owned 

his skill, 107. 
Argument, height of this great, 

1399. 
Arms on armor clashing, 381. 
Arrow, shot mine, o'er the house, 
241. 
swifter than, 1845. 



Art is the child of Nature, 110. 
Nature is but, 289. 
O man, is thine alone, 109. 
Artist, in framing an, 111. 
Aspect, with grave, he rose, 112. 
Aspiration lifts him from the 

earth, 113. 
Assurance double sure, I '11 make, 

114. 
Asters, purple, nod, 130. 
Atheist, bv night an. half believes 

a God, 115. 
Athena, august, 116. 
Athens, the eye of Greece, 117. 
Attachment to the well-known 

place, 914. 
Attempt and not the deed, 118. 
Auburn, sweet, 2003. 
August round her precious gifts 

is flinging, 121. 
Aurora, fair daughter of the 

dawn, 122. 
Author, no. ever spared a brother, 

124. 
Authoritv. drest in a little brief, 

126. 
Authors steal their works, 123. 
Autumn in the misty morn, 131. 
succeeds, a sober, tepid age, 

1610. 
who may paint thee, 128. 
wins you best, 129. 
Avarice, a good old-gentlemanly 
vice, 133. 
creeping on, 409. 
old men sicken of, 134. 
Awkward, embarrassed, stiff, 135. 

Bacchus with pink eyne, 2006. 
Backward, turn backward, 313. 
Balances, Jove lifts the golden, 

136. 
Ball, I saw her at a county, 137. 
Banishment, bitter bread of, 138. 
Banner with the strange device, 

141. 
Banners, all thy, wave, 142. 

hang out our, 140. 
Bard, blind, on Chian strand, 143. 
Bark, fatal and perfidious, 456. 
Battle line, our far-flung, 744. 

rages loud and long, 149. 

who in life's, 194. 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



341 



Beams athwart the sea, 151. 
Bear, ragged Russian, 414. 

Beard, his tawny. 153. 

was as white as snow, 152. 
Beast, that wants discourse of 

reason, 154. 
Beauty, a thing of, is a joy, 159. 

cost her nothing - , 65S. 

draws us with a single hair, 
162. 

dwells in deep retreats. 163. 

is a vain and doubtful good. 
156. 

is its own excuse. 161. 

needs not the flourish of 
praise. 155. 

stands in the admiration, 157. 
Bed, in. we laugh. 164. 

the. was made. 25S. 
Bees, murmuring of innumer- 
able. 166. 
Beggars, mounted, 167. 

when, die, 16S. 
Beggary, impotent and snail- 
-paced, 524. 
Behavior, upon his good, 169. 
Belial, sons of, 170. 
Bell, merry as a marriage, 651. 

the Sabbath, 1546. 
Bells, mellow wedding, 173. 

ring out, wild, 172. 

those evening, 171. 
Bethlehem, hail to the king of, 

321. 
Birds in their little nests, 672. 
Birth is but a sleep, 17S. 
Birthday, a day that rose, ISO. 
Bivouac of the dead, 131. 
Blasphemy in the soldier, 1S2. 
Blessedness, dies in single. 253. 
Blessings brighten as thev take 
their tlight. 1S4. 

wait on virtuous deeds. 1S5. 
Blind among enemies. 1S7. 
Bliss which centres in the mind. 

1S9. 
Blood, a drop of manly. 191. 

flesh and, so cheap. 229. 

is a juice of special kind, 192. 

when the. burns. 190. 
Boat, swiftlv elides the bonnie, 

19S. 
Body, upon my burned. 59S. 



Bond, I '11 have my, 200. 
Bones, come to lay his, among 
ye. 56. 
cursed be he that moves my, 

201. 
flesh hacked from, 709. 
rattle his, over the stones, 

202. 
thy, are marrowless, 795. 
Book, "a, O rare one, 203. 
Books are a world. 206. 

cannot always please, 205. 
deep versed in, 207. 
in the running brooks, 37. 
many, are wearisome, 1439. 
some, are lies, 208. 
the best companions, 204. 
Bore, sound that ushers in a, 

210. 
Bores and bored, the, 209. 
Borrower, neither a, nor a lender, 

be. 211. 
Borrowing dulls the edge of hus- 
bandry, 211. 
Boston, solid men of, 212. 
Bound, there 's nothing but hath 

his. 214. 
Bounty, large was his. 216. 

no winter in 't. 215. 
Bourn no traveller returns, 777. 
Bowers, lodged in thy living, 

1952. 
Boys, scrambling, outfacing, fash- 

ion-monging, 223. 
Braes, we twa hae run about the, 

222. 
Brains, steal away their, 5S7. 
when the, were out, 224. 
Branch, cut is the. 213. 
Brave deserves the fair, 226. 
how sleep the. 227. 
more, to live, 225. 
on. ye, 359. 
Bravest are the tenderest, 476. 
Breach, once more unto the, 22S. 
Bread, crammed with distressful, 
1490. 
should be so dear, 229. 
Breast, calm the troubled, 231. 
Breath, good man yields his. 

232; 

Breeches are so queer, 233. 
Breezes of the South, 234. 



342 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



Brevity is very good. 236. 

the soul of wit, 235. 
Bride in her bloom. 238. 
Bridge of sighs, 1993. 

that arched the flood, 239. 
Brook, a, comes stealing, 240. 
Brookside, I wandered by the, 

2041. 
Brother, be not over-exquisite. 

90. 
Bubbles, the earth hath, 243. 
Bucket, old oaken. 244. 
Bud is on the bousrh. 245. 
Busrle, blow. 246." 
Bully, like a tall, 353. 
Buttercups, the children's dower. 

251. 
Butterfiv, a mere court, 419. 
I 'd'be a, 21S. 

Ca?sar, dead and turned to clav, 
253 
the word of, 253. 

Calamity, thou art wedded to, 

2o5. 
Caledonia, stern and wild, 1052. 
Calendar, accursed in the, 454. 
Caliban, sweet eyes at, 407. 
Calumny will sear Virtue. 257. 
Camel to thread a needle's eve, 

550. 
Candle, did not see the. 367. 

hold their farthing, 363. 

throws his beams. 259. 
Cannons spit forth their indigna- 
tion, 261. 
Canteen, we have drunk from 

the same, 756. 
Captain, boisterous, of the sea, 
265. 

mv. our fearful trip is done. 
264. 
Caravanserai, G-od's green, 25S. 
Care keeps his watch. 266. 

pursues its victim, 26S. 

that is entered once, 267. 

to our coffin adds a nail. 269. 

will kill a cat, 270. 
Cat, a harmless, necessarv, 272. 

care will kill a. 270. 

will mew, 273. 
Catalogue, go for men in the, 575. 
Cataract haunted me. 274. 



Caterpillars of the Common- 
wealth, 417. 
Cato, give his senate laws, 276. 
Cattle, call the, home. 277^ 
Cause, little shall I grace my. 275. 
Caverns measureless to " man, 

262. 
Censure from a foe, 2S5. 
take each man's, 41. 
Ceremony was but devised, 2S6. 
Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry 

away. 315. 
Chamber, come to the bridal, 493. 
Chance, all. direction, 289. 
dark idolater of, 15S4. 
grasps the skirts of, 333. 
power men call, 2SS. 
Change, fear of, perplexes mon- 
archs, 607. 
itself can give no more, 291. 
ringing grooves of, 292. 
Chaos, black, comes again, 293. 
eldest night and, 80. 
of thought and passion, 294. 
Character in thy life, 295. 
Charily, alas for the raritv of, 
295. 
fulfils the law, 297. 
Charm, the, bv sages often told, 

401. 
Charms strike the sight, 299. 
Chastity, saintly, 300. 
Chatterton, the marvellous boy, 

301. 
Chaucer, well of English. 302. 
Cheek, fed on her damask, 374. 

o'er her warm, 193. 
Cherubims, still quiring to the, 

1708. 
Chickens, count their, 305. 
Child, a thankless, 985. 

is father of the man, 309. 
Childhood, the scenes of mv. 

1453. 
Children are the kevs of Para- 
dise. 310. 
gathering pebbles, 312. 
if the, were no more, 307. 
Chime, faintlv as tolls the even- 
ing, 314. 
Chivalry, charge with all thy, 142. 
Choice, follow thou thy, 317. 
goes by forever, 514. 



IXDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



343 



Choler, room to your rash, 31S. 
Christ, ring in the, 172. 

the one great word, 822. 

was born across the sea. 320. 

went agin war. 323. 
Christians have burnt each other, 

176. 
Christmas comes but once a year. 
024. 

hearth, holly round the, 325. 

keep our. merry, 327. 

tide, bright be thy. 326. 

't was the night before, 32S. 
Church, what is a, 330. 

who builds a, 329. 
Churchyards, when. yawn. 894. 
Circle of the golden year, 151. 
Citadel, a towered, 331. 
Citizens, before man made us, 

335. 
City. Cain, the first, made, 7S6. 

one who, in, pent. 336. 
Clay, blind his soul with, 338. 
Cleopatra, since, died. 115. 
Cliff, as some tall, 341. 
Clime, cold in, are cold in blood. 

352. 
Climes beyond the western main, 

342.' 
Cloake, take thine old, 343. 
Clock worn out. 344. 
Cloud that 's dragonish, 16S9. 
Clouds are angels' robes. 34S. 

heavy with storms, 346. 

hooded, like friars. 150. 

on the western side, 347. 

trailing, of glory. 743. 
Clown, thou art mated with a, 

953. 
Coach, go call a. 349. 
Cock, the early village. 350. 
Coincidence, a strange, 351. 
Cold, "t is bitter. 353. 
Coliseum, while stands the, 354. 
Colossus, like a, 355. 
Columbia, to glory arise, 357. 
Column, where London's, 35S. 
Combat, the. deepens. 359. 
Comfort comes too late, 361. 
Commandments, set my ten, 362. 
Commentators each dark passage 

shun, 363. 
Communion with the skies, 365. 



Companions, I have had, 311. 
Compass, I mind my, 369. 
Complexion, mislike me not for 

my, 372. 
Compulsion, sweet, in music, 

373. 
Concealment, like a worm, 374. 
Conceit in weakest bodies strong- 
est works, 375. 
lies in his hamstring, 27. 
what are they in their. 249. 
Conclusion, a foregone, 376. 
Condition is not the thing, 188. 
Conflict, dire was the noise of, 

3S1. 
more fierce the, grew, 147. 
through the heat of, 256. 
Confusion on thy banners wait, 

332. 
worse confounded. 383. 
Conquerors that war against your 

own affections, 1626. 
Conquest's crimson wing, 385. 
Conscience does make cowards, 

386. 
into what abvss. 387. 
of the king, 1341. 
the. rarely gnaws, 388. 
Conscious stone to beauty grew, 

247. 
Consideration like an angel came, 

389. 
Consistency wuz a part of his 

plan,' 391. 
Consolation, grief is crowned 

with. 390. 
Conspiracies no sooner should be 

formed, 393. 
Constancy lives in realms above, 

395. 
Consummation devoutly to be 

wished, 396. 
Consumption's ghastly form, 493. 
Contemplation and valor formed, 

397. 
Contempt, contemptible to shun, 

39S. 
Content can soothe, 401. 

commends me to mine own, 

400. 
Contest, great, follows, 403. 
Convents bosomed deep in vines, 

2. 



344 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



Conversation, in, boldness bears 
sway, 199. 
skill of, lies in, 404. 
Copse, near yonder, 340. 
Corruption is a tree, 408. 
mining all within, 528. 
shall deluge all, 409. 
Counsel, bosom up my, 410. 
Countenance will change to vir- 
tue, 1357. 
Country, God made the, 1937. 
left our, for our country's 

good, 413. 
my, 't is of thee, 1315. 
the undiscovered, 217. 
Court melted into one whisper, 

1580. 
Courtesy, that fine sense which 

men call, 420. 
Courtier, not a, hath a heart, 418. 
Coward, call him a slanderous, 
521. 
never on himself relies, 428. 
Cowards, common men are, 1513. 
conscience does make, 386 
die many times, 426. 
Cowslips wan, 429. 
Coxcombs, some made, 430. 
vanquish Berkeley, 431. 
Crack of doom, 577. 
Cradle of reposing age, 432. 
Cradles rock us nearer to the 

tomb, 179. 
Creation sleeps, 434. 
Creatures, millions of spiritual, 

1783. 
Credit, blest paper, 435. 
Cricket, thou winter, 12. 
Critical, I am nothing if not, 439. 
Critics I saw, that names deface, 

440. 
Crocus, the yellow, 321. 
Cromwell, damned to everlasting 
fame, 671. 
our chief of men, 441. 
Cross, the, leads generations on, 

442. 
Crown, a fruitless, 444. 
I give away my, 3. 
likeness of a kingly, 445. 
Crutch, shoulders his, '707. 
Cupid is a casuist, 448. 
is painted blind, 447. 



Cure for life's ills. 449. 
Curfew tolls the knell, 450. 
Curiosity, that low vice, 451. 
Curls, snakes his ambrosial, 452. 
Current, take the. when it serves, 

453. 
Curs, like to village, bark, 1200. 
Curses, mouth-honor, breath, 455. 
Custom calls me to it. 45S. 

that monster, 459. 
Cut, unkindest, of all, 1982. 
Cygnet to this pale faint swan, 

754. 

Daffadills, we weep to see, 461. 
Dagger, is this a, 462. 

of the mind, 462. 
Daisy's cheek is tipped. 463. 
Dame, he that would win his, 423. 
Dames of ancient days, 466. 
Damn with faint praise, 1369. 
Damnation, deal, round the land, 

464. 
Damned use that word in hell, 

139. 
Damsel, a, lay deploring, 1608. 

with a dulcimer, 465. 
Dance, on with the, 469. 

the Pyrrhic, 470. 
Danger, out of this nettle, 472. 

shape of, 473. 
Dante of the dread Inferno, 474. 
Dare do all that may become a 

man, 475. 
Darkness, all day the, 532. 

bends down like a mother, 
477. 

the instruments of, 1S85. 

universal, buries all, 478. 

visible, no light but. S95. 
Darling of the April rain, 2009. 
Daughter of the voice of God, 
593. 

still harping on my, 480. 
Day, at the close of the, 485. 
" "begins to break, 483. 

each, critique on the last, 260. 

is done, 632. 

it is a sultry, 1819. 

the kingly/1328. 
Days are in the yellow leaf, 486. 

heavenly, that cannot die, 
487. 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



345 



Davs, nor mourn the unalter- 
able, 791. 
our, beg-in with trouble, 500. 
thirty, hath September, 1211. 
Death, a necessary end, 4S3. 

a strange, delicious amaze- 
ment. 49 S. 
all seasons for thine own, 

■496. 
came with friendly care, 979. 
close following, 492. 
cometh soon or late, 495. 
cruel, is always near. 500. 
dread of something after, TT7. 
his. calcined thee to dust, 

602. 
how wonderful is, 502. 
in itself is nothing, 504. 
is beautiful, 503. 
lies on her, 490. 
loves a shining mark. 494. 
lurks in every flower, 501. 
only kind to mortals. 497. 
rides on every passing breeze, 

501. 
there is no, 499. 
thou art sweet, 77S. 
though, be poor, 491. 
't is, to me to be at enmitv, 
617. 
Death's untimely frost, 773. 

voice sounds like a prophet's, 
904. 
Debts, call our old, in, 3S8. 
Decay's effacing fingers. 506. 
Deceit should steal such gentle 

shapes, 508. 
December, came the chill, 510. 
Decency, want of, 512. 
Deed, so shines a good, 259. 
Deeds, easy to beget great, 516. 

excused his devilish. 515. 
Deep where Holland lies, 517. 
Defence, at one gate, to make, 

520. 
Delav leads impotent beggarv, 

* 524. 
Deliberation, deep on his front 

engraven, 526. 
Denmark, something is rotten in, 

529. 
Deputv. this outward-sainted, 
955. 



Desert, where no life is found, 

533. 
Desire, bloom of young, 193. 
liveth not in fierce, 535. 
Despair defies even despotism, 
537. 
then black, 53S. 
Despotism, despair defies even, 

537. 
Destiny, shady leaves of, 541. 
Detractions, they that hear their, 

543. 
Devil, abashed the, stood, 1. 
the, builds a chapel, 3S4. 
can cite scripture, 1422. 
has the largest congregation, 

3S4. 
laughing, in his sneer, 878. 
sends cooks, 406. 
temptation of the, 18S6. 
was sick, the, 546. 
Dew, resolve itself into a, 722. 
Dial, true as the. to the sun, 

549. 
Die, we must all, 1231. 
Dies, nothing, but something 

mourns, 1232. 
Digestion, good, wait on appetite, 

99. 
Digression, there began a lang, 

552. 
Dinner, much depends on, 553. 
Discontent, the winter of our, 

2061. 
Discord, brayed horrible, 381. 
effects from civil, 556. 
oft in music, 555. 
Discourse, with such large, 557. 
Discretion, not to outsport, 558. 

the best part of valor, 559. 
Diseases, desperate grown, 560. 
Disguise, 't is manly to disdain, 

561. 
Disobedience, of man's first, 563. 
Disposition, a verv melancholv, 

565. 
Dispute, could we forbear, 63. 
Distance lends enchantment. 570. 
Diver did hang a salt-fish, 89. 
Divinitv that shapes our ends, 

573. 
Doctor Fell, I do not love thee, 
562. 



346 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



Dog, I 'd rather be a, 237. 

will have his day, 273. 
Dogs of war, let slip the, 1499. 
Dolphins play, pleased to see, 

369. 
Dome, hand that rounded Peter's. 

247. 
Dominion over palm and pine. 

744. 
Done, if it were, when 'tis, 25. 
Doubt, modest, is called, 578. 
Doubts, our, are traitors, 579. 
Doves, the moan of, 166. 
Drama's laws, the, 580. 
Dream, a, so sweet, 554. 

fickle as a changeful, 702. 
Dreams are a world, 206. 

are children of an idle brain, 
5S1. 

have breath and tears, 5S2. 

glimpses of forgotten, 5S4. 

some, are nothing but dreams, 
583. 

such stuff as, are made on, 
1726. 
Dress, be plain in, 585. 

drains our cellar dry, 5S6. 

we sacrifice to, 536. 
Drink, give him strong, 583. 
Drunkard, some frolic, 590. 
Dulcimer, damsel with a, 465. 
Dunce, a, at home, 591. 
Dungeon, dweller in yon, 592. 
Duty, if that name' thou love, 
593. 

Eagle, stretched upon the plain, 

594. 
Eagle's fate and mine are one, 

1657. 
Ear, give every man thine, 41. 
more is meant than meets 
the, 595. 
Earth doth like a snake renew. 
596. 
felt the wound, 597. 
hath bubbles, 243. 
is a thief, 1521. 
lie lightly, gentle, 598. 
with her thousand voices, 
599. 
Ease, I '11 take mine, 741. 
would recant vows, 600, 



East, opening chambers of the, 

1827. 
Echo, applaud thee to the very, 

101. 
fading from the chime, 1252. 
waits with art, 605. 
Echoes roll from soul to soul, 

606. 
set the wild, flying. 246. 
Eclipse, built in the, 456. 

total, without all hope of dav. 

186. 
Eden, through, took their solitary 

way, 60S. 
Education forms the common 

mind, 609. 
Eloquence, mother of arts and, 

117. 
Elves, the criticising, 698. 
Embers, glowing, through the 

room, 802. 
Embroidery, sad, wears, 429. 
Emerson first, there comes, 611. 
Enchantment, distance lends, 

570. 
Enemy in their mouths, 587. 
England, model to thy inward 

greatness, 616. 
Ensign, tear her tattered, 618. 
Enthusiasm, a moral inebriety, 

619. 
Envy is a kind of praise, 610. 
will pursue merit. 621. 
withers at joy, 622. 
Err, to, is human, 745. 
Error and mistake are infinite, 

405. 
shall, father truth, 626. 
wounded, writhes with pain, 

627. 
Eternitv, thou pleasing, dreadful 

thought. 629. 
Europe, better fifty years of, 

630. 
Eve, since, ate apples, 553. 
Events, coming, cast their shad- 
ows before, 1390. 
Evil, be thou my good, 634. 
springs up. 635. 
that men do lives, 636. 
Exercise, the sad mechanic, 1293. 
Expectation makes a blessing 

dear, 640. 



IXDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



347 



Experience is by industry 
achieved. 641. 

long, made hiui sage, 642. 
Extremes in nature equal good 

produce, (34-3. 
Eve. let every, negotiate for it- 
self. 279. 

of childhood fears a painted 
devil, 54o. 

the black, the blue. 649. 
Eves are homes of silent praver. 
645. 

bright, rain influence, 9S2. 

half defiant. 646. 

soft, looked love. 651. 

soul-deep, 647. 

sweetest, were ever seen, 650. 

true, too pure. 645. 

were made for seeing, 161. 

with a wondrous charm. 646. 

Fabric, like an exhalation, 652. 

like the baseless. 569. 
Face, can't I another's, com- 
mend, 656. 
false, must hide, 565. 
he hides a shining, 656. 
light upon her, 654. 
that launched a thousand 

ships. 1670. 
this man, whose homelv, 
1101. 
Face, the old familiar. 311. 
Fair, exceeding, she was not, 
655. 
is foul, and foul is. 657. 
Fairy land, this is the. 659. 
Faith, amaranthine flower of. 662. 
for modes of, 663. 
has centre everywhere. 661. 
if. produce no works. 660. 
saddest thing, to lose. 571. 
Faithless, among the. faithful. 4. 
Fall, he that is down needs fear 

no. 664. 
False as air. 665. 
Falsehood, strife of Truth with. 

514. 
Fame, damned to everlasting. 
671. 
is double-mouthed. 667. 
morning when I longed for, 



Fame, that all hunt after, 666. 

what *t 
Fame's eternall beadroll, 302. 

eternal camping-ground, 151. 

proud temple shines afar, 670. 
Families of yesterday. 1300. 
Famine is in thy cheeks. 673. 
Fancy, she 's all my, painted her, 

" 675. 

where is, bred. 674. 
Farewell, a word that must be, 
677. 

through keen delights. 676. 

to thee. Arabv's daughter, 
451. 
Farmers, the embattled, stood, 

239. 
Fashion wears out more apparel, 

675. 
Fate, binding Nature fast in. 652. 

has wove the thread of life, 
653. 

take a bond of. 114. 

when, summons, monarchs 
obey. 650. 
Fates, what, impose. 679. 
Father of all, in every age. 655. 

wise, knows his own child, 
6>4. 
Fathers. God of our, 744. 
Fault, condemn the. 656. 
Faults, chide him for, 306. 

in vain. my. ye quote, 65S. 
Fear, desponding. 693. 

is most accursed. 692. 

what should be the. 691. 
Feasts, blest be those. 695. 
February, slant sun of. 697. 
Feelings", some, are to mortals 

given. 593, 
Feet beneath her petticoat, 467. 

her. like snails, 699. 
Fellow, touchv, testv, pleasant, 

TOO. 
Female of sex it seems. 701. 
Fiction, by fairy, drest. 701 

rises to the" eye. 703. 
Fields, rejoice ye. 121. 
Fiend, a frightful. 70S. 
Fight another day. 710. 
Fire, from beds of raging. 711. 
Firmament, now glowed the, 712. 

spacious, on high, 713. 



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IXDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



Fish. I can. and study too. 1457. 
Flag- of the free heart's hope. 714. 

the meteor, of England. 715. 
Flame, freedom's holy, 716. 

that lit the battle's wreck. 
717. 
Flatter, I cannot. 715. 
Flattery, can. soothe the ear of 
death. 720. 

the food of fools, 719. 
Flea has smaller fleas. 721. 
Flesh, this too solid. 722. 
Flight, no thought of. 416, 
Flood, leap into this angry. 724. 

taken at the. 1912. 
Flowers preach to us. 726. 

that skirt the frost. 725. 

the gentle race of. 725. 

they talk in. 727. 

wither at the north-wind's 
breath. 496. 
Fly, oh could I, 366. 
Foe. the erect, the manly. 729. 
Folks, unhappv, on shore now, 

16S0. 
Folly, if. grow romantic, 731. 

lovely woman stoops to, 733. 
Fools are my theme. 734. 

ever since the Conquest. 736. 

our scorn may raise. 620. 

Paradise of. 735. 

rush in where angels fear, 
737. 

to talking ever prone, 730. 
Footprints on the sands of time. 

735. 
Fop. some fiery, 590. 
Fops, positive," persisting, 260. 
Force, who overcomes by. 740. 
Forest primeval, this is the. 742. 
Forget, lest we. 744. 
Forgetfulness. not in entire, 743. 
Forgive, good to. 717. 

those who, most, 746. 
Forgiveness to the injured does 

belong, 1299. 
Form of life and light. 745. 
Forsaken, when he is, 1282. 
Fortitude is seen in great ex- 
ploits, 749. 
Fortune, forever, wilt thou prove. 
752. 

is female, 751. 



I Fortune keeps an upward course. 
•2001. 
stings and arrows of. 1959. 
will, never come. 750. 
Fortune's power. I am not now 

in. 30. 
Frailty, thy name is Woman. 753. 
France, 't is better using. 755. 
Freedom from her mountain- 
height. 761. 
my angel, his name is. 759. 
sternly said. 760. 
thou art not a girl. 75S. 
Freedom's battle, once begun. 

115, 
Freeman whom the truth makes 

free. 1965. 
Freemen, corrupted, the worst of 

slaves. 1724. 
'Friend, of every friendless name 
the. 768. ' 
oh. be my. 765. 
save me from the candid. 729. 
to thy. be true, 706. 
Friends in youth, 395. 

of humblest, scorn not one, 

769. 
remembering my good. 763. 
thou hast, and their adoption 

tried. 701. 
two. two bodies, 767. 
Friendships of the world, 766, 
Front, his fair large. 770. 
Frost and fight, work of. 772. 
fefi dvA'b a untimely -3 
the panes are hung with. 771. 
Fruit, the ripest, first falls. 774. 
Funeral baked meats. 1907. 
Furrows, we see time's. 57. 
Fury like a woman scorned. 775. 

'of a patient man. 776. 
Future, trust no. 780. 

Gage, there I throw my. 287. 
Gain, play not for, 784. 

un vexed with cares of. 781. 
Gait, I ken the manner of his. 113. 
Gale, so sinks the. 782. 

thorn that scents the even- 
ing. 783. 
Garden. God the first, made. 7S6. 

where flowers were heaped. 



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INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



Great, rightly to be, 839. 

some are born, 83S. 
Greatness, highest point of all my, 

838. 
Greece, but living, no more, 842. 

glory that was, 1531. 

sad 'relic of departed worth, 
841. 

the isles of, 843. 
Greeks ioined Greeks, 844. 
Grief, forestall his date of, 847. 

is crowned with consolation, 
390. 

my, lies onward, 845. 

silent manliness of, 849. 

the holy name of, 848. 

what 's gone should be past, 
846. 
Ground, haunted, holy, 850. 
Groves, frequenting sacred, 852. 

were God's first temples, 
1951. 
Grudge, feed fat the ancient, 853. 
Gudgeons, to swallow, 305. 
Guest, welcome the coming, 855. 
Guests, unbidden, 854. 
Guilt, full of artless jealousy, 856. 

once harbored, 857. 

Habit, costly thy, 94. 
Habits, ill, gather by unseen de- 
grees, 858. 
small, well pursued, 859. 
Hags, midnight, call fiends, 2077. 
Hair, beauty draws us with a 
single, 162. 
draws you with a single, 860. 
from his horrid, 360. 
golden, like sunlight, 861. 
streamed like a meteor, 863. 
when you see fair, 862. 
would rouse and stir, 938. 
Hairs, his silver, 52. 
Halter, felt the, draw, 864. 
Hand in hand with you, 865. 

that rounded Peter's dome, 

247. 
white, delicate, dimpled, S66. 
Hands, now join your, 567. 

that the rod of empire might 
have swayed, 613. 
Hanging and wiving goes by 
destiny, 1157. 



Hangman of creation, 592. 
Happiness depends, as nature 
shows, 868. 

our being's end and aim, 869. 

that makes the heart afraid, 
867. 
Harm, to win us to our, 1885. 
Harmony, from heavenly, 871. 

touches of sweet, 870. 
Harp of thousand strings, 1972. 

through Tara's halls, 872. 
Haste, let your, commend your 
duty, 873. 

more, worst speed, 874. 
Hat. broad-brimmed, 875. 

the old three-cornered, 233. 
Hate me with your hearts, 876. 

wounds of deadly, 877. 
Hazards, great things are achieved 

through, 19. 
Head, here rests his, 624. 

oh good gray, 881. 

the wise, the reverend, 882. 
Health, better to hunt in fields 
for, 8S4. 

with, all pleasure flies, 883. 
Heart bowed down by weight 
of woe, 888. 

incessant battery to her, 421. 

may give a lesson, 889. 

merry, goes all the day, 885. 

rise, thy Lord is risen, 602. 

she wants a, S86. 

we cannot heal the throbbing, 
379. 
Hearts, great, have largest room 

to bless, 840. 
Heathen Chinee is peculiar, 433. 
Heaven doth with us as we with 
torches, 2010. 

hath a hand in these events, 
14S6. 

is above all yet, 891. 

is as the book of God, 892. 

sends us good meat, 406. 
Hecuba, what 's, to him, 977. 
Heir, creation's, 901. 

of all the ages, 900. 
Hell, better to reign in, 576. 

breathes out contagion, 894. 

fear of, a hangman's whip, 694. 

grew darker at their frown, 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



351 



Hell is a city much like London, 

itself should gape, 542. 

merit heaven by making 

earth ft, 3 - 
never mentions, to ears po- 
lite, - 1 
Heralds his-h before him run, 

44-. 
Hero in our eyes. 9 
when his "sword. 

- are much the same, 
as great have died. 905. 
Hesperus rode brightest, 1215. 
High as we have mounted, 52S. 
are his. 1355. 
one be the breezy. B37. 
: the stormy North. 7. 
rock-ribbed and ancient, 
Hist >ry hath but one page. 
Holiday, butchered to make a 

Roman, 910. 
Holidays, if all the year wot 
H )lly round the Christmas hearth, 

* 325. 
Homage, no worthless pomp of, 

912. 
Home is the resort of love, 913. 
is the sailor. 915. 
kindred points of he 

and, 917. 
no place like, 916. 
Homer, deep-browed. 919. 

seven cities warred for, 920. 
will be all the books you 
need, 918. 
Homes, forced from their. 6S9. 
Honest man 's the noblest 

work of God. 922. 
Honey, surfeited with, 1572. 
Honey-bees, so work the, 165. 
Honor and shame from no condi- 
tion rise, 926. 
comes, a pilgrim gray, 925. 

sd in dishonor, 
sinks where commerce long 

prevails. 364. 
too much, a burthen. 923. 
travels in a strait so narrow. 
924. 
Honor 's a fine imaginary notion. 
925. 
at the stake, S39. 



Hood, a page of, 929. 

ftndon, ve who enter in, 
936. 
farewell, and farewell, fear, 

634. 
flies with swallows' wings, 

930. 
heavenly, is all serene. 9 
in thv sweet garden grow, 

933." 
never comes that comes to 

all. 935. 
springs eternal, 932. 
withering fled. 878. 
Hope's tender blossoms. 194. 
Horn, Triton blow his wreathed, 

937. 
Horrors, on horror's head, 939. 

supped full with, 935. 
Horse, my kingdom for a, 940. 

one. was blind, II " 
Hospitality, doing deeds of. 332. 
Host, leader, mingling with the 
vulgar, 943. 
such a numerous, 51S. 
Hounds, thev rouse from sleep, 

952. 
Hour, catch the transient, 945. 
for one short, to see the souls, 

m. 

this pernicious. 454. 

too busy with the crowded, 

944. 
when lover's vows. 2015. 
Hours, lovers' absent, 6. 
House, a naked. 1S3. 

there 'a nae luck about the. 
946. 
Humanity. O suffering, sad, 948. 

still, sad music of, 
Hunger best, who bears. 615. 
Huntsman, the healthy. 952. 
Husband, advices frae the wife 
despises, 954. 
as the, is, the wife is. 953. 
Hypocrisy, evil that walks invisi- 
ble." 956. 
Hypocrite had left his mark, 
957. 

Ice in June, 511. 

motionless as. 955. 
Idea, teach the young, 959. 



352 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



Ignorance, from, our comfort 
flows, 962. 

is the curse of God, 961. 
Ilium, topless towers of, 1670. 
Ills, cure for life's worst, 449. 

the scholar's life assail, 965. 
Illusion is brief, 1477. 
Image, a lasting, of the mind, 

1352. 
Imagination all compact, 966. 

appear so fair to, 968. 

is the air of mind, 967. 
Immortality, thoughts born for, 
970. 

this longing after, 969. 
Impossible, what 's, can't be, 971. 
Impudence, he that has but, 972. 
Independence, let, be our boast, 
976. 

thv spirit, let me share, 975. 
Infidel", a daring, 930. 
Ingratitude, I hate, 9S3. 

thou marble-hearted fiend, 
984. 
Inhumanity, man's, to man, 986. 
Inn, every house was an, 942. 

warmest welcome at an, 987. 
Innocence, glides in modest, 
away, 939. 

silence of pure, 9S8. 
Instinct and reason, how divide, 

990. 
Invention, the, all admired, 991. 
Iron, man that meddles with cold, 

992. 
Isle in far-off seas, 993. 
Isles that o'erlace the sea, 994. 
Italia, who has fatal beauty, 995. 
Italy, my Italy. 996. 
Ivy green, a dainty plant, 997. 

January, then came old, 998. 
JealousV, beware, my lord, of, 
999. 

no true love without. 1000. 

the injured lover's hell, 1001. 
Jest, a. scornful, 1003. 
Jest's, a, prosperity lies in the, 

1002. 
Jewel in an Ethiope's ear, 1004. 
John Anderson, my jo, 1109. 

some said, print it, 1383. 
Joke to cure the dumps, 1005. 



Jove laughs at lovers' perjuries, 
1327. 

lifts the golden balances, 136. 
Joy, capacity for, 1006. 

is the mainspring, 1007. 
Joys, how fading are the, 95. 

too exquisite to last, 1008. 
Judas kissed his master, 1946. 
Judges soon the sentence ' sign, 

950. 
Judgment, a Daniel come to, 1009. 

reserve thy, 41. 

thou art fled to brutish beasts, 
1010. 

where men of, creep, 1437. 
July, boiling like to fire, 1011. 
June, what so rare as a day in, 

1012. 
Juries give their verdict, 1014. 
Jury passing on the prisoner's 

life, 1013. 
Just, actions of the, 23. 
Justice, finally, triumphs, 1017. 

in fair round belly, 1015. 

will o'ertake the crime, 1234. 

Keys, two massy, he bore, 1018. 
Kin, a little more than, 1019. 

makes the whole world, 1020. 
Kindness shall win my love, 1021. 
unremembered acts of, 1022. 
Kings and mightiest potentates, 
489. 
are like stars, 1024. 
may be blest, 964. 
showers on her, barbaric 

pearl, 1025. 
what have, save ceremony, 

1023. 
wretched state of, 1539. 
Kiss, I, your eyes, 1030. 
me, and be quiet, 5S5. 
one, and then another, 1031. 
Kisses, plucked up, by the roots, 
1026. 
remembered after death, 1032. 
sweetness shell by, 1029. 
Kissing, for, not for contempt, 

1027. 
Kitchen, in the, bred, 787. 
Knave, he 's an arrant, 1033. 
Knaves, whip me such honest, 
1034, 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



353 



Knell, bv fairv hands is rung, 

1035. 
ne'er sighed at the sound of a, 

1036. 
Knowledge, be innocent of the, 

1614. 
by suffering entereth, 1039. 
conies, but wisdom lingers, 

1040. 
is as food, 1037. 
is ourselves to know. 103S. 
to their eyes her ample pae-e, 

1041. 
true, leads to love, 1042. 

Labor for his daily bread, 1046. 
is prayer, 1044. 
joy that springs from, 1045. 
swan with bootless, swim, 

1043. 
to, is the lot of man, 1047. 
Ladies, like variegated tulips. 
104S. 
sigh no more. 973. 
Lady, "accept the gift. 1751. 
Lake, on thv fair bosom, silver, 

1049. 
Lamentation, its lonesome and 

low, 536. 
Land, my own, my native, 1051. 

of brown heath. 1051. 
Landscape tire the view, 1053. 
Language, fit, there is none, 1054. 

quaint and olden, 1055. 
Lark, the herald of the morn, 
1056. 
the, left his nest. 1057. 
Larks, the early, 1827. 
Lass, a penniless, 1058. 
Latin, that soft bastard, 1059. 
Laughter, holding his sides, 1060. 

shakes the skies, 1061. 
Law, in, what plea so tainted, 
1062. 
sovereign, sits empress, 1064. 
Laws grind the poor, 1063. 
Leaf is on the tree. 245. 

the sere, the yellow, 1065. 
Learning enlightens to corrupt 
the mind, 1069. 
mourning for the death of, 

106S. 
on scraps of, dote, 1070. 



Leaves have their times to fall, 496. 

like, on trees, 1067. 

shady, of destiny, 541. 
Letters, all dead paper, 1073. 

Cadmus gave, 1075. 

that betrav the heart's his- 
tory, 1074. 
Liberty, I must have. 1076. 

like day, breaks, 1079. 

mountain nvmph, sweet, 
1081. 

when, is gone, 1078. 
Liberty's, in, defence, 1077. 

in 'every blow, 10S0. 
Lie, an odious, damned, 10S2. 

nothing can need a, 1033. 
Life a curse and not a blessing, 
1086. 

bv his. alone, 637. 

high, 10S. 

hovers like a star, 10S7. 

is but a span, 500. 

is not to be bought, 1092. 

is scarce the twinkle of a 
star, 10SS. 

is so dreary, 536. 

is the gift of God. 10S9. 

nor love thy, nor hate, 10S5. 

pure in its purpose, 9S1. 

sacred burden is this, 24S. 

so careless of the single, 1093. 

twenty years of, 1816. 

what is, 1090. 

whoso lives the holiest, 911. 
Life 's a short summer, 945. 

a vast sea. 1091. 

but a means, 614. 

but a walking shadow, 10S4. 
Light, a dim religious, 275. 

offspring of Heaven, 1094. 

that led astray, 1095. 

that never was. 1096. 

the prime work of God, 1S7. 

to break and melt in sunder, 
1097. 
Lightning, brief as the. 109S. 
Lightnings, the rending, 1SS3. 
LikenessT long shall we seek his. 

166S. 
Lilacs. April brings again, 105. 
Lilies, in the beautv of the. 320. 

in twisted braids of, 1100. 
Lily, mistress of the field, 1099. 



354 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



Line, cadence of a rugged, 252. 
Marlowe's mighty, 1102. 
marred the lofty, 1103. 
will the, stretch, 577. 
Lion, wounds the earth, 1104. 
Lions, talks familiarly of, 197. 
Lips, her, are roses washed with 
dew, 1105. 
when my, meet thine, 1028. 
Little, contented with, 1106. 

man wants but, 1107. 
Lives of great men, 738. 
Loan, a, oft loses a friend, 1071. 
Locks, never shake thy gory, 

1108. 
Lodge in some vast wilderness, 

2049. 
Logic, in, a great critic, 1110. 
London, the villain's home, 1111. 
Longings, immortal, in me, 1112. 
Looks, talked with, profound, 
1114. 
woman's, my only books, 
1113. 
Lord of himself, that heritage of 
woe, 1115. 
of himself, though not of 
lands, 1116. 
Loss is common, 1117. 
Love and tears for the Blue, 1878. 
hail, wedded, 1160. 
has an eye for a dinner, 1135. 
him, why did she, 1131. 
how could I tell I should, 

1121. 
in a hut is ashes, 1130. 
includes heart and mind, 

1127. 
is a spirit of fire, 1119. 
is at home on a carpet, 1135. 
is nature's treasure, 1136. 
is the only good, 1123. 
let those, who never loved 

before, 1125. 
looks not with the eyes, 447. 
man's, is a thing apart, 1133. 
mutual, brings delight, 1124. 
no partnership allows, 1126. 
O last, O first, 9. 
purple light of, 193. 
rules the court, 1134. 
seldom haunts the breast 
where, 1995. 



Love, she never told her, 374. 
taught him shame, 337. 
this spring of, 1118. 
took up the harp of Life, 319. 
tunes the shepherd's reed, 

1134. 
what, can do, 1122. 
when he draws his bow, 423. 
Loved and lost, better to have, 
1128. 
so kindly, had we never, 
1129. 
Loveliness needs not ornament, 
36. 
when unadorned, adorned 
the most, 36. 
Lover rooted stays, 191. 
Loving are the daring, 476. 

no pleasure like the pain of, 
1132. 
Luxury, cursed by heaven, 1137. 
it was a, to be, 1138. 

Mad, I am not, 1139. 

Madding crowd's ignoble strife, 

443. 
Madmen, the worst of, 1558. 
Madness, moody, laughing wild, 
1141. 

must not un watched go, 1140. 
Madrigals, birds sing, 1518. 
Mahomet, moon of, 442. 
Maid, be good, sweet, 823. 
Maker, our, bids increase, 284. 
Malice, nor set down aught in, 

96. 
Man, what, dare, I dare, 414. 

dare do all that may become 
a, 415. 

dwells apart, 1760. 

foremost, of this world, 237. 

good, never dies, 232. 

groan, hear a good, 370. 
Man 's a man for a' that, 1147. 

is a summer's day, 1148. 

is one world, 1145. 

is the nobler growth, 1717. 

let each, do his best, 5. 

made the town, 412. 

O good old, 91. 

O that a mighty, 425. 

proper study of mankind is, 
1146. 



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356 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



Mischief, thou art swift, 1194. 

to, mortals bend, 1195. 

Misery had worn him to the 

"bones, 1196. 

he gave to, all he had, 216. 

sacred even to gods, 1197. 

Misfortune made the throne her 

seat, 1199. 
Mists, season of, 127. 
Mockery, unreal, hence, 1202. 
Modesty, grace and blush of, 
1204. 
looks replete with, 1203. 
Monarch, a morsel for a, 1205. 
Monarchs, fate of mighty, 1206. 
Money, get, no matter by what 
means, 1210. 
if thou wilt lend this, 1072. 
rolled in, like pigs, 1208. 
the only power, 1209. 
Monuments of princes, 1212. 
Mood, a sunny, 304. 

fantastic as a woman's, 
1214. 
Moon is an arrant thief, 1521. 
had climbed the highest hill, 

1217. 
how like a queen, 1216. 
is carried off in purple fire, 

1222. 
of Mahomet, 442. 
unveiled her peerless light, 

1215. 
when the, shone, 367. 
where sighs are deposited, 
1686. 
Moonlight, meet me by, 1856. 
Moor, a naked, 183. 
Morality, unawares, expires, 

1218. 
Morn, sweet is the breath of, 

1220. 
Morning, in the, thou shalt hear, 
1223. 
opes her golden gates, 1219. 
steals upon night, 482. 
Morning-star of memory, 748. 
Mortality's strong hand, 1225. 
Mother is a mother still, 1227. 
Mother's heart is weak, 1226. 
Motions, a third interprets, 544. 
Mo ant, I know a, 1228. 

I, toward the sky, 1230. 



Mountain tops, he who ascends 

to, 612. 
Mountains, circling the, 346. 
high, are a feeling, 1229. 
Mountebanks, cheating, 1411. 
Mourner, the only constant, 460. 
Mouth that spits forth death, 197. 
Murder may pass unpunished, 
1234. 
most foul, 1233. 
one, made a villain, 438. 
Music has charms to soothe, 
1237. 
heavenly maid, 1239. 
in them, die with all their, 

1241. 
man that hath no, 1235. 
slumbers in the shell, 1240. 
sweet compulsion in, 373. 
the fiercest grief can charm, 
1238. 
Music's golden tongue, 1236. 

Nails, come near your beauty 

with my, 362. 
Naked, the, "every day he clad, 

345. 
Name, take not his, 1842. 

the magic of a, 1243. 

what 's in a, 1242. 
Nation, one, evermore, 1314. 
Nations, fierce contending, 556. 
Nature, accuse not, 18. 

Art is the child of, 110. 

ever yields reward, 1244. 

gave signs of woe, 597. 

how fair is thy face, 1245. 

is but art, 289. 

made a pause, 434. 

made us men, 335. 

speaks a various language, 

1246. 

Nature's heart beats strong, 890. 

Necessity, the tyrant's plea, 515. 

Neptune", he would not flatter, 

1707. 
Nettle, out of this, danger, 472. 
News, bringer of unwelcome, 
1247. 

evil, rides post, 1248. 
Newton, let, be, 1250. 
Night, ancestral mystery, 1256. 

darkens the streets, 170. 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



357 



Night is the time to weep, 1258. 
shadow of a starless, 538. 
that from the eye takes, 1254. 
upon the palms, 1257. 
wanes, 1221. 
witching- time of, 894. 
with her sullen wing, 1255. 
Nightingale, if she should sing by 
day, 1259. 
that on yon bloomy spray, 
1260. 
Noble by birth, 1261. 

who is honest is, 1262. 
Noon, dark amid the blaze of, 

186. 
Noontide wakes the buttercups, 

251. 
North, ask where 's the, 1263. 
November, he full gross and fat, 

1264. 
November's rain descends, 1265. 
Numbers, I lisped in, 1266. 
Nun, quiet as a, 34. 

Oak, I will rend an, 19 

who hath ruled in the green- 
wood, 1268. 
Oaks, charmed by the stars, 

1267. 
Oar, soft moves the dipping, 198. 
Oars, our, keep time, 314. 

were silver, 1269. 
Oaths that make the truth, 1270. 
were not purposed to, 1271. 
Obedience is the Christian's 

crown, 1273. 
Obey, let them, 1272. 
Observation, doth not smack of, 

1274. 
Observations which ourselves 

make, 1623. 
Ocean leans against the land, 517. 
stretched in light, 1276. 
sunless retreats of the, 547. 
thou deep and dark blue, 

1275. 
wave, a life on the, 2033. 
October, calm sunshine of, 1277. 
October's foliage yellows, 1278. 
Odds, I would allow him, 521. 
Odors, when sweet violets sicken, 

200S. 
Odyssey, Iliad and the, 143. 



Offence, detest the, 1280. 

should bear his comment, 
1279. 
Oil, incomparable, Macassar, 368. 
Old age comes on apace, 60. 

age serene and bright, 61. 

as I am, 158. 

though I look, 1281. 
Ones, how many great, 125. 
Ophiuchus huge, 360. 
Opinion, of his own, still, 1284. 
Opinion 's but a fool, 1283. 
Opportunity, thv guilt is great, 

12S5. 
Oracle, I am Sir, 1286. 
Orations, make no long, 212. 
Orators, to the famous, repair, 

1287. 
Order in variety we see, 64. 

is heaven's first law, 1288. 
Ornament is but the guiled shore, 

1289. 
Orthodox, prove their doctrine, 

574. 
Owe, you sav, you nothing, 505. 
Owl, the fatal bellman, 1290. 
Oyster, the world 's mine, 2106. 

Page, glory gilds the sacred, 

175. 
Pageant, insubstantial, faded, 

569. 
Pageants, they are black vesper's, 

16S9. 
Pain is no longer pain, 1292. 

pays the income, 1291. 
Painter, when some great, 1294. 
Pair, kindest and the happiest, 

739. 
Palm, like some tall, 1295. 
Palpable and familiar, 484. 
Pan is dead, 1296. 
Pang preceding death, 1297. 
Pangs, the keenest, the wretched 

find, 534. 
Paradise, how grows in, our 

store, 1298. 
of Fools, 735. 
Pardon, a, after execution, 361. 
Parting is such sweet sorrow, 

825. 
the pain of, 1302. 
Partings break the heart, 1303. 



358 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



Passion leads or prudence points 
the way, 1403. 
places which, loves, 1304. 
the power of that sweet, 1120. 
Passions are likened to floods, 
1305. 
may I govern my, 1624. 
oft, to hear her shell, 1239. 
various ruling, 1543. 
Past, let the dead, bury its dead, 
780. 
over the*trackless, 1306. 
Patience is a plant, 1311. 

is the exercise of saints, 1310. 
poor they are, that have not, 

1308. 
thou young cherubim, 1309. 
times when, proves at fault, 
1312. 
Patriots, true, all, 413. 
Pauper, he 's only a, 202. 
Peace, a, is of the nature of a con- 
quest, 1317. 
hath her victories, 1320. 
uproar the universal, 377. 
was on the earth, 1321. 
weak piping time of, 1318. 
why prate of, 1319. 
Pearls at random strung, 1322. 
Pen, dull product of a scoffer's, 
1324. 
is mightier than the sword, 
1323. 
People, a herd confused, 1325. 
Perseverance keeps honor bright, 

1328. 
Person, what 's a fine, 530. 
Persuasion, divine, flows, 1329. 
Petitions, petition me no, 1330. 
Phalanx, they move in perfect, 

1213. 
Phantom of delight, 527. 
Philosophy, how charming is di- 
vine, 1331. 
will clip an angel's wings, 
1433. 
Physic, take, pomp, 1333. 

throw, to the dogs, 1332. 
Pietv, a trade, 1334. 
Pilot, 't is a fearful night, 1335. 
Pines, silent sea of, 1336. 
Pipe when tipped with amber, 
1337. 



Pity gave ere charitv began, 1339. 
is the virtue of ~the law, 1338. 
Place, fittest, where man can 
die, 1340. 
give me the lowest, 949. 
stands upon a slippery, 471. 
Player, a strutting, 27. 
Playmates, I have had, 311. 
Pleasure and action make the 
hours seem short, 21. 
and revenge more deaf than 

adders, 1342. 
is as great, 303. 
must succeed to pleasure, 

1344. 
to excess, 1343. 
with, drugged, 1573. 
Pleasures are like poppies spread, 
1345. 
he soothed his soul to, 1346. 
that to verse belong, 1352. 
Plough, following his, 301. 
Ploughman homeward plods, 450. 
Poet, G-od is the perfect, 1351. 
worships without reward, 
1350. 
Poetry, men are cradled into, by 
wrong, 1363. 
not, that makes men poor, 
1347. 
Poets are all who love, 1349. 

have made us heirs, 1353. 
Pole, true as the needle to the, 

1354. 
Poll, flaxen was his, 152. 
Pomegranate, from Browning 

some, 887. 
Poppies, with rain, overcharged, 

1356. 
Possession means to sit astride 

of the world, 1360. 
Potations, banish long, 212. 
Poverty, but not my will, con- 
sents, 1361. 
stood smiling in my sight, 
1364. 
Power, thev should take who 
have the, 1366. 
what can, give, 1365. 
Prairie, low in the light the, lies, 

1367. 
Praise from a friend, 285. 
Praising what is lost, 1368. 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



359 



Prayer incessant, if by. 1371. 
"more things are wrought bv, 
1374. 
Prayers, God answers sharp and 

sudden. 1373. 
Prayethbest who lovethbest, 1372. 
Preached as never sure to preach 

again. 1375. 
Present is all thou hast, 1376. 
Press the people's right maintain. 
1377. 
turn to the, 1249. 
Priam's self shall fall. 1542. 
Pride hath no other glass, 1373. 
that apes humility, 1379. 
that putts the countrye 
doune. 343. 
Priest, the pale-eyed, 1880. 
this, he merry is, 1916. 
Primrose, a, bv a river's brim. 
1381. 
peeps beneath the thorn, 35. 
Princes, the death of. 16S. 

were privileged to kill, 433. 
Prior, here lies Matthew. 623. 
Prison make, stone walls do not 

a, 1384. 
Procrastination is the thief of 

time, 1335. 
Prodisries. when these, do meet, 

1386. 
Promise, keep the word of. 1333. 
Promotion, none will sweat but 

for. 91. 
Proof, give me the ocular. 1339. 
Prose run mad. 1392. 

warbler of poetic. 1393. 
Proselytes and converts. 405. 

of one another's trade. 1394. 
Prospects, distant, please us. 

1395. 
Prosperitv, surer to prosper than. 

1397. 
Prosperity 's the very bond of 

love, 1396. 
Proteus rising from the sea, 937. 
Providence all good and wise. 
1400. 
alone secures, 1401, 
behind a frowning. 656. 
I may assert eternal, 1399. 
there 's a special, 1393. 
Prude, yon ancient, 1404. 



Prussia hurried to the field, 1669. 
Pulpit, drum ecclesiastick, 1405. 
Punishment, back to thy, 1906. 
Puppets led about by wires, 530. 
Purity, a maid in the pride of 
* her. 1407. 

from the bodv's, 339. 
Purpose, shake my fell, 1403. 
Purse, costly as thy, can buy, 94. 

who steals my, 1409. 
Pyramids are pyramids, 1410. 

Quaker loves an ample brim, 1414. 
Quakers, upright. 1413. 
Quarrel, beware of entrance to a, 

1415. 
what is your, 399. 
Quarrels, they who in. interpose, 

1416. * 
Quickness, with too much, 1418. 
Quiet to quick bosoms is a hell, 

1419. 
Quiets of the past. 1420. 
Quips and cranks. 1421. 
Quotations, critics suffer in 

wrong, 1423. 

Rabble all alive, 1201. 

Pace, he lives to build a generous, 

1424. 
Rage, could swell the soul to, 

1425. 
Rain came down in slantin°r lines, 
1429. 
comes when the wind calls, 

1423. 
how beautiful is the, 1427. 
it raineth every day. 1426. 
trickling, doth fall," 625. 
Rainbow, an awful, 1433. 
be thou the. 1391. 
colors of the. 356. 
comes and eroes. 1432. 
God hath set his. 1253. 
Rank is but the guinea stamp, 
1435. 
superior worth your, re- 
quires. 1434. 
Rattle, pleased with a. 303. 
Reader reads no more, 1440. 
Reading, such, as was never read, 

1441. 
Realms, these are our, 1442. 



360 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



Reason, a woman's, 1443. 
feast of, 219. 
guides our deeds, 990. 
I would make, my guide, 

1445. 
raise o'er instinct, 1444. 
sanctity of, 1447. 
the confidence of, give, 1446. 
war with rhyme, 150S. 
Rebellion began to grow slack, 
1449. 
froze them up, 1443. 
Rebuff, then welcome each, 1450. 
Rebukes, a lady so tender of, 

1451. 
Rechabite poor Will must live, 

69. 
Reckoning, no, made, 17. 

when the banquet 's o'er, 
1452. 
Reconcilement, never can, grow, 

1454. 
Records that defy the tooth of 

time, 1455. 
Recreation, none so free as fish- 
ing, 1457. 
sweet, barred, 1456. 
Reflection, remembrance and, 

1459. 
Reformation, plotting some new, 

1460. 
Regret can die, 1461. 

wild with all, 1462. 
Reign, to, is worth ambition, 576. 
Relief, for this, much thanks, 353. 
Religion crowns the statesman, 
1465. 
has so seldom found, 1466. 
in, what error, 1463. 
is a spring, 1464. 
stands on tiptoe, 1467. 
veils her sacred fires. 1218. 
Remedies oft in ourselves do lie, 

1463. 
Remember the fir trees dark and 
high, 1472. 
what the Lord hath done. 
1370. 
Remembered, I 've been so long. 

1471. 
Remembrance, makes the, dear, 
1470. 
writ in, 1469. 



Remorse is as the heart, 1473. 
Renown, deathless my, 1474. 
Repartee, a man renowned for, 

1475. 
Repentance is long, 1477. 
is the weight, 1478. 
rears her snaky crest, 1479. 
who by, is not* satisfied, 1476. 
Repose, best of men have loved, 
1430. 
in statue-like, 1481. 
Reproaches, slanderous, 1719. 
Reproof on her lips, 1483. 
those can bear, 1432. 
Reputation, at every word a, 
dies, 544. 
seeking the bubble, 1754. 
the purest treasure, 1434. 
Resignation gently slopes awav, 

1437. 
Resolution, the native hue of, 

336. 
Respect upon the world, 1489. 
Respects himself, he that. 1633. 
Rest is sweet after strife, 1491. 
too much, becomes a pain, 
1492. 
Retirement, O blest, 1495. 
Retiring from the popular noise, 

1494. 
Retreat, a brave, 1496. 
Revelry, midnight shout and, 
1497. 
there was a sound of, 1498. 
Revenge, back on itself recoils, 

1500. 
Reverence, none so poor to do 
him, 254. 
to yond peeping moon, 1502. 
Revolution, there is great talk of, 

1503. 
Rhetoric, dear wit and gay, 1505. 
he could not ope his mouth, 
1504. 
Rhetorician's, a, rules, 1932. 
Rhine, the river. 1507. 

the wide and winding, 1506. 
Rhinoceros, the armed, 414. 
Rhvme, build the loftv, 1509. 
* hitches in a, 1996/ 
the rudder is of verses, 1510. 
Rich, if thou art, thou art poor, 
2036. 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



361 



Rich with forty pounds a year, 340. 
Riches in a little room, 1511. 

the toil of fools, 1512. 
Ride, a wild and lonely, 1761. 
Ridicule is a weak weapon, 1513. 

sacred to, 1514. 
Right the day must win, 1516. 

was right, 1515. 

whatever is, is, 1517. 
River glideth, 1520. 
Rivers, by shallow, 1518. 

how they run, 1519. 
Road, on a lonesome, 708. 
Robin, call for the, and the wren, 

1066. 
Rock, moulder piecemeal on the, 
1522. 

of Ages, 1523. 

this, shall fly, 1524. 
Rod, his, reversed, 1525. 

to check the erring, 593. 
Roman, rather be a dog than such 
a, 1527. 

the noblest, 1528. 
Romance, shores of old, 1530. 
Romances paint people's wooings, 

1529. 
Rome, aisles of Christian, 247. 

grandeur that was, 1531. 
Room, who sweeps a, 24. 
Rose, a, should shut, 1535. 

distilled, 283. 

looks fair, 1533. 

no more desire a, 1532. 

saith in the dewy morn, 
1536. 

would smell as sweet, 1242. 
Rosebuds, gather ye, 1914. 
Roses, I wish the sky would 
rain, 1534. 

in December, 511. 

strew on her, 1537. 
Rousseau, self-torturing sophist, 

wild, 1538. 
Rout on rout, 383. 
Ruin, fires of, glow, 1541. 

prodigious, swallows all, 
1542. 

seize thee, 382. 

upon ruin, 383. 
Ruins of himself, 507. 
Rumor is a pipe, 1544. 
Rural life, pleasures of the, 1545. 



Sabbath brings its release, 1550. 

eternal, of his rest, 1549. 

he who ordained the, 1547. 
Sailor, a drunken, on a mast, 
1552. 

messmate, hear a brother, 
1554. 
Sails, purple the, 1555. 

that drift at night, 1671. 
Saint, a, run mad, 1558. 

in crape, 108. 

John mingles with my 
friendly bowl, 219. 

would be, the devil a, 546. 
Saints began their reign, 1557. 

immortal reign, 1559. 

who led the way to heaven, 
1560. 

will aid, 1561. 
Salt, the, is spilt, 1562. 

who ne'er knew, 1564. 

why shun the, 1563. 
Salutations of the crowd, 1358. 
Salvation, no relish of, 1565. 

none of us should see, 1566. 
Sand, an heap of lime and, 1540. 
Sands, come unto these yellow, 
1567. 

ignoble things, 1568. 

o' Dee, 277. 
Sappho loved and sung, 843. 
Satan, arch-enemy, called, 1569. 

finds some mischief still, 
1570. 

stood unterrify'd, 360. 

trembles when he sees, 1571. 

was now at hand, 445. 
Satire, in general, 1576. 

let, be my song, 1575. 
Satire 's my weapon, 1574. 
Savage, wild in woods, 1577. 
Saws, full of wise, 1015. 
Scandal them, fawn on men, and, 
1579. 

waits on greatest state, 1578. 
Scars, gashed with honorable, 
1582. 

he jests at, 1581. 
Scene, solitary, silent, solemn, 

331. 
Scenes, gay gilded, 1583. 
Sceptic, whatever, could inquire 
for, 1585. 



362 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



Sceptre, a barren. 444. 

shows the force of power. 
1586. 
Schemes, our most romantic. 583. 
Scholar, a ripe and good. 1587. 

the gentleman and. 1588. 
Scholars, the land of. 1589. 
School, the master taught his, 

1591. 
School-boy, the whining, 1590. 
Schools, bewildered in the maze 

of. 430. 
Science frowned not on his hum- 
ble birth. 1174. 
star-eyed. 1593. 
trace, then, with modesty thy 
guide, 1592. 
Scorn makes after-love the more, 
1594. 
on the pedestal of. 1596. 
the sound of public, 1597. 
to point his finger at. 1595. 
Scotia, my native soil, 1599. 
Scotland, stands, where it did. 

1593. 
Scotland's strand, fair. 1600. 
Scribblers are my game. 1601. 
Scripture, the devil can cite. 1422. 
writ by God's own hand. 1602. 
Sculptor wields the chisel, 1604. 
Sculpture is more divine, 1603. 
Sea, alone on a wide. 71. 

compassed by the inviolate. 

1607. 
down to a sunless, 252. 
grew civil at her sonar. 1605. 
is a thief, 1521. 
puft up with proud disdaine, 

1882. 
sailed upon the dark blue, 

1556. 
the blue, the fresh, 1606. 
when the, was roaring, 1603. 
Seamen on the deep. 1553. 
Seas roll to waft me, 262. 
Seasons, all please alike, 1611. 
in four forms appear, 1610. 
return, with the year, 1612. 
Seat, a. in some poetic nook 

1613. 
Secret, a, in his mouth, 1616. 
Sect, slave to no, 1618. 

with every, agreed, 1617. 



Security is mortal's chiefest en- 
emy, 1619. 
Seed, fruit from such a, 1620. 

who soweth good, 1493. 
Self, smote the chord of, 319. 
something dearer than. 1621. 
to thine own, be true, 211. 
Self-concern, in others, 1629. 
Self-defence is a virtue. 1625. 
Self-dispraise, a luxury in, 1627. 
Self-esteem, nothing profits more 

than. 1625. 
Self-love is not so vile a sin, 1630. 
Self-love, the spring of motion, 

1631. 
Self-reproach, men who feel no, 

1632. 
Self-sacrifice, the spirit of, 1634. 
Senates, the applause of listen- 
ing. 103. 
Sense, good, the gift of heaven, 
1636. 
motions of the. 1635. 
Sensibilities are so acute, 1637. 
Sensibility, thou keen delight, 

1638. 
September waves his golden-rod, 

1640. 
Sermon, perhaps turn out a, 1642. 
Sermons in stones, 1641. 
Serpent, like Aaron's. 1645. 
of old Nile, 1644. ' 
sting thee twice, 1643. 
the trail of the. 1646. 
Serpent's tooth, sharper than a, 

935. 
Serve, 't is nobleness to, 1648. 
Service devine, she sange the, 
1647. 
poorest, is repaid, 1393. 
small, is true service, 769. 
Sex, no stronger than my. 1649. 
spirits can either, assume, 
1650. 
Sexton, hoary-headed chronicle, 
1651. 
tolled the bell, 1652. 
Shadow both ways falls. 1654. 

see my. as I pass. 1653. 

Shaft, when I had lost one, 1656. 

Shakespeare. Fancy's child, 1660. 

on whose forehead, 1659. 

thou art a monument, 1663. 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



363 



Shakespeare, tongue that, spake. 

what needs my, 1661. 

Shame, her blush of maiden, 1663. 

where is thy blush. 1662. 
Shape, if, it might be called, 1665. 

take any. but that. 1664. 
She is mine" own, "2044. 

walks the waters. 1672. 

was a form of life. 748. 
Shell, applying to his ear a. 1666. 
Shelley, did you once see. 1667. 
Shells! picking up, bv the ocean. 

1251. 
Shepherd, every, tells his tale, 

380. 
Sheridan, hurrah for. 1796. 

nature formed but one such 
man, 166S. 
Ship, as idle as a painted, 1673. 

has weathered every rack, 264. 

of State, 1316. 

steer a, becalmed. S2S. 
Ships have gone down at sea. 

1941. 
Shore, a rapture on the lonely. 
1679. 

left their beauty on the, 167S. 
Shot, bounding at the. 17S5. 

heard round the world, 239. 
Show and gaze o" the time. 1681. 

books and monev placed for, 
16S2. 
Shriek, a solitary. 62. 
Shrine, a faith's pure. 1683. 
Sickness, this, doth infect, 16S4. 
Sighs, a world of, 16S5. 
Sight, it is a goodly. 1688. 

lost to, to memorv dear. 7. 

loss of. 1S7. 

Silence bewrays more woe, 1691. 

deep as death. 1694. 

is the herald of joy. 1690. 

more musical than song. 1692. 

was pleased, 1693. 

where hath been no sound, 
1695. 
Silver, moon that tips with. 1696. 
Simplicity, in his. sublime. 1699. 

simple truth miscalled. 1698. 
Sin, cut off in my, 1700. 

1 waive the" quantum o' the, 
1704. 



Sin, in lashing. 1702. 

one, another doth provoke, 
1701. 

the good man's. 1703. 
Sincerity, showed bashful, 1706. 
Sing because I must. 1711. 

seraph, poet. 1709. 
Singing, all my heart in my, 

1710. 
Singularity, all have some darling, 

1713. 
Sins they are inclined to. 1705. 
Sister, when I was but your. 1714. 
Skill, simple truth his utmost, 

1715. 
Skin not colored like his own, 

1723. 
Sky. souls are ripened in our 
northern. 1717. 
the. is changed. 1715. 
the. is overcast, 1884. 
Slackness breeds worms, 250. 
Slander, foulest whelp of sin, 1721. 
sharper than the sword, 1720. 
Slave, this yellow. 1207. 
thou art a, 1722. 
whatever dav makes man a, 
1725. 
Sleep hath its own world, 1731. 
he giveth his beloved. 1733. 
life is rounded with a, 1727. 
O magic. 1730. 
silent as night. 1734. 
that knits up the ravelled 

sleave of care. 172S. 
that knows not breaking, 

1732. 
the poor man's wealth, 172S. 
tired nature's sweet restorer, 

1729. 
will bring thee dreams. 1735. 
Slime that sticks on filthy deeds, 

921. 
Sloth views the towers of Fame, 

1736. 
Sluggard, 't is the voice of the, 

1737. 
Smile, and be a villain. 173S. 

Death grinned a ghastly, 1740. 
from partial beauty won. 1741. 
that was childlike' and bland, 

1739. 
the good man's, 1742. 



364 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



Smiles, the tears, of boyhood's 

years, 221. 
Smoke that so gracefully curled, 

1748. 
Snail, creeping like, 220. 

shrinks backward. 1744. 
Snails, her feet like, 699. 
Snake, we have scotch'd the. 

1745. 
Snow, a cheer for the. 1747. 
in December. 1746. 
the, arrives, 174S. 
Snow-drop, the, comes on, 1749. 
Snuff, he only took; 1750. 

prevent your ladyship from 
taking, 1751. 
Society became my glittering 
bride. 1758. 
man in, is like a flower, 1752. 
one polished horde, 209. 
Softness and attractive grace. 

397. 
Soldier, full of oaths. 1754. 

he would have been a. 1755. 
shall I ask the brave, 436. 
the broken, 1756. 
thou more than. 1757. 
Soles, let firm, protect thv feet. 

1677. 
Solid men of Boston. 212. 
Solitude sometimes is society. 
175S. 
where are the charms. 1759. 
Son, a booby, 1763. 

no, of mine succeeding, 1762. 
Song, dear to gods and men is 
sacred, 1766. 
forbids deeds to die, 1712. 
higher than the perfect, 1888. 
moralized his, 1765. 
one immortal, 1764. 
still govern thou my. 120. 
Sonnet, scorn not the, 1767. 
Sons and brothers at a strife. 399. 
of France, awake to glory. 
S07. 
Sorrow comes too soon, 1770. 
give, words, 176S. 
hang, 270. 

one. never comes, 1769. 
Sorrow's crown of sorrow, 1771. 
Sorrows, tell all thy. 379. 
Sots, what can ennoble, 82. 



Soul, bruised with adversity. 88. 
Charoba once possest, 263. 
discontented with capacity. 

263. 
now of. 219. 

he shall not blind his, 33S. 
is as free as the stars. 1639. 
that rises with us. ITS. 
the depth of the. 1774. 
the sleepless, 301. 
whither went his, 1772. 
Soul's, the, prerogative. 1773. 
Souls, two. with but a single 

thought, 1981. 
Sound must seem an echo, 1775. 
Source of being, hail, 522. 
Spain, lovely. 1776. 
Sparrow, providence in the fall 

of a, 139S. 
Speak, know when to. 42. 
Spear, to equal the tallest pine. 

1777. 
Speculation in those eyes, 795. 
Speech is but broken light, 1779. 

rude in my. 1778. 
Spenser, fancy's pleasing son, 

17S0. 
Spires, whose finger poir* to 

heaven, 1781. 
Spirit, the strongest. th:_r a iit 

in heaven, 539. 
Spirits from the vasty deep, 17S2. 
Splendor in the grass. 17S4. 
Spring, come, gentle, 1757. 
first, like infancy. 1610. 
in the, a livelier iris. 1756. 
of love resembleth, 19S0. 
there 's no such season, 178S. 
Springe, she sets a, 407. 
Spur. I have no. 75. 

to prick us to redress, 145S. 
Stage, all the world 's a, 1759. 
Star, constant as the northern, 
394. 
looks forth alone, 1793. 
Stars have lit the welkin dome, 
714. 
keep not their motion, 1790. 
of the night. 1791. 
shot madly from their 

spheres. 1605. 
the poetrv of heaven, 1792. 
two of the fairest, 644. 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



365 



Starving, who longest can hold 

out at. 615. 
State, done the. some service, 96. 
mock the air with idle. 385. 
thousand years scarce form a, 
1794. 
Statesman to a prince. 1795. 
Steed that saved the day, 11 

les, where my high. 1540. 
Step. I hear that creaking. 210. 

oast their virtue fixed. 93. 
- of Rome to rise. 1T97. 
against some. 1798. 
rides upon the. IT 
under the. and the cloud. 371. 
Storms, give her to the god of.. 

Story of my life. 1801. 

teach him how to tell mv. 

1802. 
Strangers, by. honored, and by 

strangers mourned. 1803. 
Straw, tickled with a. 306. 
Streets, gibber in the Eoman. 

1804. 
Strength, excellent to have a 

giant's, 1805. 
Btr no, to heal, 1807. 

ladding crowd's ignoble. 

Strike, for vour altars and vour 

fires. 1313. 
Striving to better, oft we mar, 

1808. 
Strong, to be. is to be happy, 1806. 
Study is like the sun. 1809. 

is the tricing of the mind, 
1810. 
Success, life lives only in. 1813. 
not in mortals to command. 

1814. 
things ill got had ever bad. 
1812. 
Suffering- ended with the dav, 
1481. 
to. tears are due. 1815. 
Sufferings, to each his. 378. 
Summer, eternal, gilds them vet. 
ISIS, 
grows adult. 1610. 
Sun. a. will pierce. 1822. 

hath made a golden set. 1S29. 
in dim eclipse. 607. 



Sun is going down, 1S32. 

the" descending. 1831. 

the glorious. 

the. is set. 633. 

the worshipped, peered forth, 
601. 

unruly. 1821. 

upon an Easter-day. 407. 
Sunday shines no Sabbath-dav, 
1548. 

take, through the week. 1551. 
Sunflower, light enchanted. 1823. 

shining fair. 1826. 

the. turns on her god. 1824. 
Sunflowers blow in a glow. 1825. 
Suns to light me rise. 262. 
Sunset, the wondrous golden, 

1830. 
Sunshine broken in the rill. 1834. 

eternal, settles on its head, 341. 

is a glorious birth. 806. 

see the gold. 1S33. 

follow the rain. 371. 
Surfeit is the father of fast. 1S35. 
Surprise, mouth that testified, 

1S36. 
Suspense, a cool, 1837. 
Suspicion haunts the guilty mind, 

1S3S. 
Swain, remote from cities lived 

a. 781. 
Swallow-people, play the. 1S39. 
Swan, cygnet to this pale faint, 
754." 

spreads his snowy sail, 1050. 

with arched neck". 1840. 
Swears a prayer or two, 1841. 
Sweet, things, to taste. 1843. 
Sweetness, of linked. 1S44. 
Swiftness never ceasing. 1S46. 
Swimmer in his agony. 62. 
Swimmer's, a. stroke, 1847. 
Sword, a naked. 1849. 

thy maiden. 1848. 
Symbol of hunger. 2061. 
Sympathy of love, 1S50. 

there" *s naught like, 1851. 
Svnods are mvstical bear-gardens, 
1S52. 

Tale, a round unvarnished. 1855. 
I could a. unfold. ISM. 
who so shall tell a, 1S53. 



366 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



Talk, it would. 1S61. 

they, who never think. 1559. 

to conceal the mind, 1860. 
Talkers are no good doers. 1857. 
Talking, I profess not, 5. 
Tasso, their glory and their 

shame, 1562. 
Tasso's echoes are no more, 1994. 
Taste, good native. 1864. 

talk what you will of. 1563. 
Tastes, various are the, 1S65. 
Taxes, at, rails. 1567. 
Tea, sometimes take. 411. 

without a stratagem. 1868. 
Teaching and my authority. 1569. 
Tear wiped with a little address, 

30. 
Tears and love for the Gray. 1878. 

beauty's, are lovelier. 1877. 

idle tears. 1576. 

more merry, 1191. 

of bearded 'men, 1874. 

our present. 1572. 

stood on her cheeks, 1871. 

such as angels weep. 1573. 

the big round. 1870. 

thoughts too deep for, 1875. 
Temper, man of such a feeble. 

1ST9. 
Temperate in every place, 1S50. 
Tempers, strange how some 

men's, 566. 
Tempest, foretells a, 1881. 
Temptation, safe from. 1887. 

why comes, 1957. 
Terror, there is no, in vour 

threats, 1590. 
Test, bring me to the, 1591. 
Text, many a holy, 1592. 
Thane, your face, my, 653. 
Thanks' to men of noble minds. 

1594. 
Theatre, as in a, 1595. 

the world 's a. 28. 
Thief, steals from' the, 1596. 

the sun 's a, 1521. 
Thieves and pillagers, 177. 
Thing, evil, that walks by night, 

made up of tears and light. 
1431. 
Things a wise man will not trust. 
974. 



1 Things, all, are ready. 29. 

are where things are. 651. 
Thinking, with too much. 1415. 
Thirst, that panting, 1897. 
Thorn that scents the evening 
gale, 7s3. 

why choose the rankling. 
1898. 
Thought is deeper than bi 
1903. 

is eternal. 1900. 

no, should be untold. 1901. 

of our past years. 174. 

wed with tho q it 19 2. 

what is this, 
Thoughts of men are widened, 
1387. 

our, are ours, 1S99. 

too deep for tears. 1875. 
Thread, sewing a double, 1904. 
Thrift, thrift, Horatio, 

may follow fawning, 690. 
Throne of royal state. 1908. 
Thunder, idle, in his hand, 1909. 

leaps the live. 1910. 
Tide in the affairs of men. 1912. 

the turning o' the, 1911. 
Tiger, the Hyrcanian. 414. 
Tile, in cut and die so like a. 153. 
Time, away and mock the, 565. 

doth waste me. 1913. 

threefold the stride of. 1915. 
Titles are jests. 1917. 

are marks of honest men, 
1918. 

despite those. 1622. 
Toad, squat like a. 1919. 

ugly and venomous, 37. 
Tobacco, sublime, i 
To-day, call, his own. 1921. 

our cares are all, 1922. 
Toe, on the light, fantastic. 468. 
Toil, the horny hands of, 1923. 
Tomb, from the, nature cries. 

1924. 
Tombs, gilded, worms infold, 97. 
To-morrow, and to-morrow, 1925. 

comes. 1927. 

where art thou, beloved. 1928. 
To-morrow's sun mav never rise. 

1926. 
Tongue, a good, in thy head, 
1929. 



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367 



Tongue, his. dropt manna, 610. 

in every wound. 1T9T. 

let the," lick pomp, 1930. 

still his. ran on, 1S5S. 

that Shakespeare spake. 757. 

who dare dishonor the, 1931. 
Tongues in trees, 37. 

of dying men, 119. 
Toothache, could endure the, 

1933. 
Torrent, the loud. 1934. 
Torture, waters boil in endless, 

1935. 
Towers and battlements. 1936. 

the cloud-capped. 569. 
Town, man made the, 1937. 
Toys, seeks fantastic. 1938. 
Trade's proud empire. 1940. 

unfeeling train. 1939. 
Train, a melancholy. 342. 
Tranquillity, heaven was all. 1941. 
Trash, wring from peasants their, 

1866. 
Traveller, now spurs the. 1942. 
Travellers must be content, 1943. 
Travelling, in, I take pleasures. 

1944. 
Treason doth never prosper, 1947. 

tiourished over us. 1945. 

is not owned. 194S. 
Treasons, stratagems, and spoils. 

1235. 
Treasure, heaps of miser's, 1949. 
Tree, corruption is a. 408. 

dark, still sad, 460. 

fruit of that forbidden. 563. 
Trees, a brotherhood of vener- 
able, 1953. 

can smile in light, 1950. 

mine ease under the. 741. 

the lives of. 1811. 
Trial, we learn through. 1954. 
Tribe, the daring, compound their 

trash. 1412. 
Tricks that are vain. 433. 
Trifle, think nought a, 1956. 
Trifles make the sum of human 

things. 1955. 
Trouble, double toil and. 195^. 
Trust thee, so far will I, 380. 
Truth and loyaltv. 705. 

beauty is, 1969. 

crushed to earth, 1962. 



Truth forever on the scaffold, 
1970. 

has such a face, 1964. 

hath better deeds than words, 
1301. 

is one, 1966. 

is the highest thing, 1960. 

is truth,'l967. 

no cleaner thing than love, 
1968. 

severe, by fairy fiction, 704. 

tell, and shame the devil, 1961. 

whispering tongues can 
poison. 395. 
Tulip, then comes the, 1971. 
Turf, erreen be the, 1973. 
Turk, like the. 1974. 
Twig is bent, the tree 's inclin'd, 

609. 
Twilight, disastrous, sheds., 607. 

fell upon the sea, 1976. 

grav, 1975. 
Twins from the birth. 653. 
Tyranny of blood and chains, 1979. 
Tyrants seem to kiss, 1977. 

'twixt kings and, 1978. 

Unction, flattering, to your soul, 

52 S. 
Unfortunate, one more. 1438. 
Union, strong and great, 1316. 
Unity, confound alf. 377. 
Urania govern thou my song, 120. 
Urn. has filled his. 365. 
Use doth breed a habit in a man, 

457. 
things beyond all, 19S3. 
Utter what thou dost not know. 

1615. 

Vale of vears, declined into the, 

54*. 
Valentine, couple with my. 1955. 
Valiant never taste of death, 426. 
Valor, fear to do base things is, 
19S6. 

shows but a bastard. 1S17. 
Vanity, insatiate cormorant, 19S7. 

what will not. maintain, 19SS. 
Vapor, as a. all doth vanish. 1224. 

melting in a tear, 19S9. 
Variety, order in. 04. 
Variety 's the spice of life, 1990. 



368 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



Vault, heaven's ebon, 1991. 
Vengeance, in, there is scorn, 1992. 

to God alone belongs, 1501. 
Venice, I stood in, 1993. 
Ventures, lose our, 453. 
Verse, a, may find him, 1348. 

married to immortal, 1844. 

sweetens toil, 1997. 
Vessel, a brave, 1674. 

splitting, on the rock, 1675. 
Vessels large may venture, 281. 
Vice, a, good old-gentlemanly, 
133. 

can bolt her arguments, 1999. 

from no one, exempt, 398. 

is a monster, 2000. 

there is no, so simple, 1998. 
Victory, graced with wreaths of, 
2001. 

it was a famous, 2002. 
Villain, a, in all Denmark, 1033. 

one murder made a, 438. 

which is the, 2005. 
Villas, suburban, 2004. 
Vine, monarch of the, 2006. 
Vines that round the thatch-eaves 

run, 127. 
Violet by a mossy stone, 2007. 

throw a perfume on the, 638. 
Violets, when sweet, sicken, 2008. 
Virginitv, hath hurtful power 

o'er, 797. 
Virtue, assume a, 2012. 

calumny will sear, 257. 

may be assailed, 2013. 

starves while vice is fed, 2014. 

that possession would not 
show us, 1359. 
Virtues, their, we write in water, 
2011. 

which in parents. shine, 81. 
Vision, a faery, 356. 

in solemn, 2015. 
Visions of glory, 1687. 
Visit, annual, o'er the globe, 366. 
Voice, her, was ever soft, 2016. 
Vows, lovers', seem sweet, 2018. 

made in pain, 600. 

may be broken, 2017. 
Vulcan his office plies, 1061. 

"Wagers, fools for arguments use, 
2019. 



Walks abroad, whene'er I take 
my, 2021. 

echoing, between, 2020. 
Waller was smooth, 589. 
Want gives to know the friend, 

1362. 
War, grim-visaged, 2023. 

is a game, 2024. 

is a terrible trade, 2026. 

is still the cry, 2025. 

then was the tug of, 844. 

thou son of hell, 2022. 

to provoke, 1402. 
Wardens of your farms, 177. 
Warrior, he lay like a, 2028. 
Washington 's a watchword, 2029. 
Water, smooth runs the, 2030. 

what good, is worth, 2031. 
Wave, a life on the ocean, 2033. 

is breaking on the shore, 1252. 

so dies a, 2032. 
Way, the heaven's pathless, 2034. 
Ways that are dark, 433. 
Weakness, all wickedness is, 2035. 
Web, a tangled, we weave, 509. 
Wedding, never, ever wooing, 

723. 
Weed, a, tossed to and fro, 1609. 
Weeds, dank and dropping, 2038. 
Weep, women must, 2105. 
Weight, I give this heavy, 3. 
Welcome to our house, 2039. 
Welcomes, a hundred thousand, 

2040. 
Wheels of weary life stood still, 

344. 
Whim, let every man enjoy his, 

978. 
Whistled as he went, 1984. 
Whole, all are parts of one, 811. 
Wickedness, a method in man's, 

2042. 
Widows, may, wed, 2043. 
Wife by her husband stays, 2046. 

this sweet wee, 2047. 

unclouded welcome of a, 2048. 
Will, executes a freeman's, 2050. 
Willow, willow, willow, 2051. 
Wind is rising, 2053. 

more inconstant than the, 
581. 

of western birth, 2054. 

the, of night, 2055. 



IXDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



369 



Wind, the southern, 1881. 

what, blew you hither, 2052. 
Windows that exclude the light, 

2056. 
Wine can make the sage frolic, 
2 058. 
makes love forget, 2057. 
Wing, this sail is as a noiseless, 

2059. 
Wing?, at heaven's gates she 

claps her, 2060. 
Winter chills the lap of May, 2064. 
comes to rule, 2062. 
creeps along with tardv pace, 

1610. 
has yet brighter scenes, 2063. 
of our discontent, 2061. 
the silver pencil of the, 2065. 
Wisdom and fortune. 2066. 
Wisdom's self oft seeks. 2069. 

well, the stream from, 2063. 
Wise, "t is folly to be, 963. 
to-dav. be. 525. 
what 'is it to be. 2067. 
Wish was father to that thought, 

2070. 
Wishes lengthen as our sun de- 
clines. 2071. 
Wit. a mouse's, 2072. 

brevity the soul of, 235. 

I have neither, 195. 

is out, when age is in, 51. 

men famed for, 2075. 

on the wings of borrowed, 

2076. 
will shine, 252. 
Wit's, a. a feather. 922. 

an unruly engine, 2073. 
Wits are to madness allied, 2074. 
Wives may be merry, 2045. 
Woe doth tread upon another's 
heel, 1193. 
the deepest notes of, 2030. 
trappings and the suits of, 
2078. 
Woes, rare are solitary, 2079. 

that wait on age, 59. 
Woman, earth's "noblest thiner, 
2088. 
in our hours of ease, 2090. 
lovely, stoops to folly. 733. 
mixed of such fine elements, 
2092. 



Woman, nothing lovelier in, 2084. 

she is a, 422. 

so she 's good, 20S9. 

that deliberates is lost, 2091. 

we had been brutes without 
you, 20S5. 

we will work for a, 2093. 
Woman ? s a contradiction still, 
2087. 

will, torrent of a, 20S6. 
Women are as roses, 20S2. 

honor to, 2083. 

should never be dated, 58. 
Wonder, it gives me, 1170. 

of an hour, 2094. 
Woodland, like a human mind, 

2095. 
Woodman, spare that tree. 2096. 
Woods are an ever-new delight, 
741. 

whispered it to the, 2097. 
Word in season spoken, 231. 
Words, a dearth of, 404. 

are no deeds, 2093. 

are things, 2102. 

chaste, from a bashful mind, 
1697. 

have power to assuage, 2100. 

immodest, admit no defence, 
512. 

never to heaven go, 2099. 

our, have wings, 2101. 
Wordsworth's healing power, 

2103. 
Work, free men freely, 2104. 

men must, 2105. 

there is always. 1923. 
Workmen, when* strive. 424. 
World, bestride the narrow. 355. 

I have not loved the, 2110. 

is all a fleeting show. 2109. 

service of the antique, 91. 

this pendent. 2103. 

too much respect upon the, 
2107. 

uncertain comes and goes, 
191. 
World 's. the, a theatre, 28. 
Worm, the smallest, will turn, 

2111. 
Worship without words, 2112. 
Worth, courage, honor, 296. 

makes the man, 2113. 



370 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS, 



"Wound, willing to, 2115. 
"Wounds, bind up my, 2114. 

•wept o"er his, TOT. 
Wrath, Achilles', 2117. 

come not within my, 2116. 
Wreaths, victorious. 2118. 
Wrecks, a thousand fearful, 2119. 
Wretch, a needy, 2120. 

an inhuman. 446 
Wretches hang that jurymen 
may dine, 950. 
that depend on greatness' 
favor, 6S9. 
Wrinkle, what stamps the. 59. 
Write, you, with ease, 2121 
Writing well, nature's chief mas- 
terpiece, 2122. 
Wrong forever on the throne, 
19T0. 
on, swift vengeance waits, 
2123. 
Wrongs unredressed, 2124. 



Xerxes did die, 2125. 

Tears following years, 212T. 

I sigh not " over vanished, 
2128. 

none would live past, 2129. 

the accomplishment of. 2126. 
Yesterday, oh, call back. 2130. 

the word of Caesar might. 254. 
Yew. hails me to yonder, 54S. 

old, which graspest. 2131 
Youth, home-keeping, 2133. 

how beautiful is, 2135. 

how buovant are thv hopes, 
2134. 

lost days of our. 1306. 

no less becomes, 2132. 

on the prow, 2136. 

Zeal. his. none seconded, 213S. 
served my God with, 213T. 
Zealots, graceless, fight, 663. 



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